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Cullmann, Astrid - 2009

In January 2009 Germany introduced incentive regulation for the electricity distribution sector based on results obtained from econometric and nonparametric benchmarking analysis. One main problem for the regulator in assigning the relative efficiency scores are unobserved firm-specific factors...

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Market Integration, Efficiency, and Interconnectors : The Irish Single Electricity Market

Nepal, Rabindra - 2012

Interconnections can be an effective way to increase competition and improve market integration in concentrated wholesale electricity markets with limited participants. This paper examines the potentials for interconnections and increasing market integration in the Irish Single Electricity...

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Estimation of Firm-Level Productivity Changes in the Indian Power Sector : Disentangling Unobserved Heterogeneity by a Transformed Fixed-Effect Stochastic Frontier Model

Sugathan, Anish - 2013

We measure firm-level productivity changes in the Indian electricity sector during a period that witnessed several pro … decomposition of productivity into components of changes in technology, efficiency, scale and price effect. During this period …, especially post Electricity Act 2003, we observed a general decline in firm-level productivity at the mean rate of -1.6% per year …

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Efficiency effects of quality of service and environmental factors : experience from Norwegian electricity distribution

Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Wetzel, Heike - 2010

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and regulation. A recurrent concern is the effect of environmental factors that are beyond the influence of firms (observable heterogeneity) and factors that are not identifiable...

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Productivity in electricity generation : the role of firm ownership and regional institutional quality

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Ownership, institutions and productivity of European electricity firms

Borghi, Elisa; Del Bo, Chiara; Florio, Massimo - 2010

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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change

Koch, Michael - 2019

upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …

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Winter is Coming? Zombie Firms and Ownership Type in Canada

Amundsen, Alexander; Lafrance, Amélie; Leung, Danny - 2023

their performance and productivity; are hurting the productivity and growth of healthy firms; and are increasingly lowering … aggregate productivity …

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The hidden cost of investment : the impact of adjustment cost on firm performance measurement and regulation

Nick, Sebastian; Wetzel, Heike - 2014

In this study, we address a major problem in the measurement of firm performance and the regulation of natural monopolies, namely the intertemporal character of long-term investment decisions. In specific, we focus on the impact of adjustment costs of investments on estimates of firms’...

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Complementary inputs and industrial development : can lower electricity prices improve energy efficiency?

Singer, Gregor - 2024

productivity and electricity productivity. Apart from positive effects on firm economic and environmental performance, cost …-price pass through significantly benefitted consumers, and the productivity improvements limited increases in carbon emissions. …

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