In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...

This paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency of Thai electricity generation under public ownership. Technical efficiency is measured employing a comparative application of nonparametric and parametric approaches, namely Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a fiscal assessment of privatisation of state owned enterprises in the electricity supply industry in Thailand in order to evaluate the justification of the fiscal benefit of privatisation. The analysis is separated into electricity generation enterprise...

In der aktuellen Debatte zur Rekommunalisierung von Stromanbietern wird häufig das Argument der sicheren Versorgung zu niedrigen Preisen von Vertretern öffentlicher Eigentümer angeführt. Während die sichere Belieferung mit Strom im Rahmen der Grundversorgung gesetzlich vorgeschrieben ist,...