Assessing the effects of quality regulation in Norway with a quality regulated version of dynamic DEA

Philipp von Geymüller, Anton Burger

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Abstract

In order to find out why energy-not-supplied in Norway - the most important indicator for the quality of service in the quality-regulation regime there - decreased more pronounced before the introduction of quality-regulation in 2001 than after it, we develop a dynamic quality-DEA-model and apply it to a representative sample of distribution-net operators. Our model enables us to calculate a counter-factual and thus to tentatively answer the question: What would have happened, had there been no quality-regulation? This way we find strong evidence that the quality-regulation in Norway did not have an effect on the behavior of the firms. (author's abstract)
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationVienna
PublisherForschungsinstitut für Regulierungsökonomie, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Publication series

SeriesWorking Papers / Research Institute for Regulatory Economics
Number2007,4

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  • Working Papers / Research Institute for Regulatory Economics

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