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Title: | Firm size and productivity: evidence from the electricity distribution industry in Brazil | Authors: | Tovar de la Fe, Beatriz Erasmi Ramos-Real, Francisco Javier Almeida, Edmar Fagundes de |
UNESCO Clasification: | 531205 Energía | Keywords: | Electricidad Empresas |
Issue Date: | 2011 | Publisher: | 0301-4215 | Journal: | Energy Policy | Abstract: | In this paper we apply Stochastic Frontier Analysis through a distance function to investigate the impact of firm size on productivity development in electricity distribution. We use a sample of seventeen Brazilian firms from 1998 to 2005 and decompose productivity into technical efficiency, scale efficiency and technical change. Moreover, a further step is to decompose the technical change measurement into several components. The results indicate that firm size is important for industry's productivity, and therefore a key aspect to consider when making decisions that affect the market structure in the electricity distribution industry. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/43261 | ISSN: | 0301-4215 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.001 | Source: | Energy Policy[ISSN 0301-4215],v. 39, p. 826-833 |
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