Alternative regulatory methods and firm efficiency: Stochastic frontier evidence from the U.S. electricity industry

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 530-540

  Knittel, Christopher R ^a  

^a Energy Institute at Haas and National Bureau of Economic Research   (United States)

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EID: 0036022628     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465302320259529     Document Type: Review

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