作者:STANLEY, LR; TSCHIRHART, J
作者单位:University of Wyoming
作者:COOPERMAN, ES; LEE, WB; LESAGE, JP
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University System of Ohio; University of Toledo
作者:HAUSMAN, WJ; NEUFELD, JL
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
摘要:For over a century American economists have been engaged in a vigorous theoretical and empirical debate over the economic performance of publicly-owned versus privately-owned electric utilities. We review the historical debate and use micro data collected by the U.S. Commissioner of Labor in 1897/98 to construct efficiency measures based on a non-parametric frontier production function. Since this is prior to state rate-of-return regulation, regulatory effects do not confound the analysis. We ...
作者:GREENE, WH; SEAKS, TG
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro