Regulation of state-owned and privatized utilities: Ukraine electricity distribution company performance

Journal of Regulatory Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-287

  Berg, Sanford ^a   Lin, Chen ^a   Tsaplin, Valeriy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Financial Department   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA); Incentive regulation; State owned and privatized utilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 26244461392     PISSN: 0922680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11149-005-3957-z     Document Type: Article

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