International benchmarking has played a key role in the reform of Australia's infrastructure industries by promoting indirect or yardstick competition, in highlighting the need for further reform and building a consensus for implementing necessary changes. The international benchmarking of...

The aggregate Canadian technology is modeled by a GNP function with four export and four import components included by the use of aggregator functions and a two-stage estimation process. The recently developed symmetric generalized McFadden functional form is used at both the aggregator and GNP...

This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book – researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms – address the use of efficiency measures...