Kuosmanen, Timo; Saastamoinen, Antti; Sipiläinen, Timo - In: Energy Policy 61 (2013) C, pp. 740-750
Electricity distribution is a natural local monopoly. In many countries, the regulators of this sector apply frontier methods such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to estimate the efficient cost of operation. In Finland, a new StoNED method was adopted in...