Hirschhausen, Christian von; Kappeler, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper provides a productivity analysis of German electricity distribution companies. It addresses both traditional … issues in electricity sector benchmarking, such as the role of scale effects and optimal utility size, as well as new … electricity distribution utilities. We apply a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) with constant returns to scale (CRS …