Accounting for unobserved management in renewable energy & growth

Energy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 345-355

  Menegaki, Angeliki N ^a  

^a Regional Branch of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace   (Greece)

Author keywords

Management; Random coefficients; Renewable energy; Stochastic frontier; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

RANDOM COEFFICIENTS; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS MODEL; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY MARKET; FRONTIER REGION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

EUROPE;

EID: 84888429706     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.10.057     Document Type: Article

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