Efficiency analysis of German electricity distribution utilities - Non-parametric and parametric tests

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2553-2566

  von Hirschhausen, Christian ^a   Cullmann, Astrid ^b   Kappeler, Andreas ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; PARAMETERIZATION; RETURNS TO SCALE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; TESTING METHOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33751574448     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500427650     Document Type: Article

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