mean level of performance, in the period under investigation, efficiency improvements have been limited. Moreover, the … results demonstrate that both the ownership structure and politics do have an impact on the efficiency of the firms: in …

The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that … of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data Envelopment Analysis, to analyze the potential efficiency gains from … hypothetical mergers between water utilities at the county level. A conditional efficiency framework is applied to account for the …

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a …

about the transition to modern long-term management regulation practices in order to increase companies' efficiency, which … steps to encourage regulated companies to increase efficiency and productivity. Solution is to move to using benchmarking … efficiency of companies and improve their potential. The authors tested a parametric (COLS) and non-parametric (DEA) methods to …

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to determine the different levels of productivity and efficiency improvement over this period. The …

use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to determine the utilities' technical efficiency scores … efficiency scores even after accounting for significant structural variables like network density, share of groundwater usage and …