Efficiency and regulation of the Slovenian electricity distribution companies

Energy Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 335-344

  Filippini, Massimo ^a,b   Hrovatin, Nevenka ^c   Zorič, Jelena ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Regulation; Slovenian electricity distribution companies; Stochastic frontier cost function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

PRICE REGULATION;

ENERGY POLICY;

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; REGULATORY APPROACH;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 0042825258     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00295-1     Document Type: Article

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