This paper provides a "back-of-the-envelope" assessment of the efficiency effects of the reforms of the water sector in … regulatory regimes which require estimates of economic efficiency changes, none have actually issued any estimate yet. This paper … provides upper bounds estimates of efficiency gains achieved for four operators. The paper concludes with a discussion of the …

analyses of regulation and privatisation in ESI in Thailand are presented. Regulatory, efficiency and fiscal issues are … for privatisation: efficiency improvement and fiscal benefit.In the efficiency analysis, measures of the technical … efficiency of the electricity generation sector in Thailand are estimated by employing a comparative application of Data …

efficiency, quality and welfare, despite having lower-value customers. These predictions agree with empirical findings for US … utilities, and find direct support using data from Electricity Distribution Businesses in New Zealand. To reflect ownership … suggest that performance comparisons of customer- and investor-owned utilities should account for ownership endogeneity. This …

bayesian inference is still capable of contemplating the temporal dynamics of efficiency. The consideration of this point is … fundamental, because the studies done to evaluate the efficiency of the electric sector have neglected the fact that part of the … increase in efficiency of a utility comes from the gain of scale due to the expansion of the market, a process that happens …

public and private utilities' efficiency …While the link between the ownership and productive efficiency of firms has been discussed extensively, no consensus … flexible production model to test for efficiency differences associated with ownership types while allowing the production to …