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Regulatory benchmarking with panel data

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posted on 2007-03-30, 11:18 authored by Necmiddin Bagdadioglu, Thomas G. Weyman-Jones
This paper considers panel data procedures for regulatory benchmarking that allow for both latent heterogeneity and inefficiency, encapsulating the regulatory dilemma in comparative efficiency analysis for incentive regulation. It applies a distance function model with appropriate concavity properties for econometric estimation to a panel of electricity distribution utilities in Turkey, since electricity industry reform is a major policy issue there. The results confirm the importance of allowing simultaneously for heterogeneity and inefficiency and emphasise the need for specific time-invariant heterogeneity information, such as geographical data, on regulated utilities in different regions.

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  • Business and Economics

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  • Economics

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236639 bytes

Publication date

2007

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This is a working paper. It is also available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/lbo/lbowps/2007_03.html.

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1750-4171

Language

  • en

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