benchmarking approaches to assess the relative technical efficiency of the utilities, such as deterministic Corrected Ordinary … higher efficiency scores and that investment in underground cables increase the technical efficiency of the distribution … utilities. -- International benchmarking ; electricity distribution ; parametric efficiency analysis …

This paper provides a cross-country efficiency analysis of electricity distribution companies in East European … transition countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). We compare the relative technical efficiency of East … companies are still inefficiently small. The Czech Republic and Slovakia feature the highest efficiency. …