Decomposition of cost efficiency and its application to Japanese-US electric utility comparisons

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 91-106

  Tone, Kaoru ^a   Tsutsui, Miki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Cost efficiency; DEA; Price efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL POWER; PRICE DYNAMICS; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147094716     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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