Publikationen des Projekts: Kommunale Infrastrukturunternehmen zwischen Energiewende und demografischem Wandel (KOMIED) - Industrieökonomische Analysen mit Mikrodaten der Energie-, Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft
The evaluation of market structures and the quantification of returns to scale in network industries usually are of high interest for researchers and policy makers. Regarding the debate on optimal market structures in German potable water supply, we use a cross-sectional sample of 364 German water utilities observed in 2006 to derive a nonparametric measure of scale elasticity for the water industry. ...
In:
Empirical Economics
47 (2014), 3, S. 1029-1053
| Michael Zschille
Revenue cap regulation is often combined with systematic benchmarking to reveal the managerial inefficiencies when regulating natural monopolies. One example is the European energy sector, where benchmarking methods are based on actual cost data, which are influenced by managerial inefficiency as well as operational heterogeneity. This paper demonstrates how a conditional nonparametric method, which ...
Bergen:
Institutt for Foretaksøkonomi,
2016,
37 S.
(Discussion Paper / Institutt for Foretaksøkonomi ; 2016,4)
| Endre Bjoerndal, Mette Bjoerndal, Astrid Cullmann, Maria Nieswand