Comparison of cost efficiency among electricity distribution companies in Northern Europe: A panel data stochastic frontier approach

IF 13.6 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Kjartan E. Rasmussen
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Electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, along with numerous other nations, operate as local natural monopolies. Regulatory bodies in each of these five countries are responsible for overseeing and regulating the local markets to offset this inherent market failure. Despite the many similarities in regulation between countries, cross-country studies on DSO performance are a rarity in the literature. This study addresses this gap by employing a panel data stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to examine differences in cost efficiency levels between the aforementioned five countries. This includes the short-term adjustable time-varying efficiency, often called the managerial efficiency, endogenous to each DSO and the short-term unadjustable time-invariant efficiency, often called the organizational efficiency, exogenous to each DSO. The results of the analysis indicate vast differences in operational environments both within and between countries. When controlled for, efficiency distributions across countries mostly appear to be similar, indicating no significant difference in performance capabilities between DSOs across the countries examined.
北欧配电公司成本效率比较:面板数据随机前沿方法
丹麦、挪威、瑞典、芬兰和冰岛以及许多其他国家的配电系统运营商(dso)都是当地的自然垄断企业。这五个国家的监管机构都负责监督和规范当地市场,以抵消这种固有的市场失灵。尽管各国之间的监管有许多相似之处,但对DSO绩效的跨国研究在文献中是罕见的。本研究通过采用面板数据随机前沿分析(SFA)来检查上述五个国家之间成本效率水平的差异,从而解决了这一差距。这包括短期可调节时变效率,通常称为管理效率,每个DSO的内生效率和短期不可调节时不变效率,通常称为组织效率,每个DSO的外生效率。分析结果表明,国家内部和国家之间的业务环境存在巨大差异。当进行控制时,各国之间的效率分布似乎大多相似,这表明在所调查的国家之间的dso之间的绩效能力没有显着差异。
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Energy Economics
Energy Economics ECONOMICS-
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18.60
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524
期刊介绍: Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.
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