Combining Uncertainty with Uncertainty to Get Certainty? Efficiency Analysis for Regulation Purposes
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Data Envelopment Analysis; Stochastic Frontier Analysis; Efficiency Analysis; Regulation; Network Operators Publication Status: Forthcoming;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- C50 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - General
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ECM-2018-10-15 (Econometrics)
- NEP-EFF-2018-10-15 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ORE-2018-10-15 (Operations Research)
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