Regulation and efficiency: An empirical analysis of the United Kingdom continental shelf petroleum industry

Energy Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 915-925

  Kashani, Hossein A ^a  

^a Department of Sociology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contracts; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Petroleum; Regulation; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); DEGREES OF REGULATION; SELF-SUFFICIENCY; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS (SFA);

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL REGULATION; OIL INDUSTRY; STOCHASTICITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10944270729     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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