the efficiency of local public production. To check the theoretical results empirically, a two-stage data envelopment … degree of municipal control. The results of the OLS- and Tobit regression indicate an efficiency-enhancing effect of …

the efficiency of local public production. To check the theoretical results empirically, a two-stage data envelopment … degree of municipal control. The results of the OLS- and Tobit regression indicate an efficiency-enhancing effect of …

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

efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A … conditional efficiency framework is used to account for the operating environment. Highest efficiency improvement potentials turn …

efficiency of enterprises in the international electricity, gas and telecom-munications industries. The results support the … complex stochastic frontier models in estimating the technical efficiency of enterprises. …

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 …

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

the performance of operators through a study of their financial indicators and a non-parametric efficiency analysis. The … risk-free interest rate. The non-parametric efficiency analysis does not reveal significant economies of scope and … highlights a certain degree of variability of technical efficiency scores. This suggests that there is room for efficiency gains …