Cost efficiency in the Swiss gas distribution sector

Energy Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-78

  Farsi, Mehdi ^a,b   Filippini, Massimo ^a,b   Kuenzle, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Gas distribution; Scale economies; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; GAS SUPPLY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GAS DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES; SCALE ECONOMIES; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS;

GAS INDUSTRY;

COST; GAS INDUSTRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33750514049     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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