Efficiency effects of observed and unobserved heterogeneity: Evidence from Norwegian electricity distribution networks

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 542-548

  Growitsch, Christian ^a   Jamasb, Tooraj ^b   Wetzel, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Heterogeneity; Input distance function; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENCY RANKINGS; ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MULTICOLLINEARITY; NETWORK UTILITY; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY; WEATHER FACTORS;

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; INDUSTRY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REAL VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BENCHMARKING; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; STOCHASTICITY;

NORWAY;

EID: 84857373269     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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