A Primer on Efficiency Measurement for Utilities and Transport Regulators (WBI Development Studies) - Softcover

Coelli, Tim; Etc.; World Bank Institute; Et Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821353799 ISBN 13: 9780821353790

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2003

Synopsis

This work provides an overview of the techniques available to regulators of recently ""privatized"" utilities and transport services to measure the various sources of inefficiencies in the firms they are required to monitor. It provides guidelines as to how to choose between these options, identifying the costs and benefits of the various approaches in the situations most relevant to regulators. It covers the measurement of efficiency in the context of a tariff revision aiming at redistributing at least some of the efficiency gains from the producers to the users. It also addresses the challenges from comparative efficiency assessments allowing the introduction of yardstick competition. The issues covered should be of interest to those regulatory authorities which are required to obtain measures of relative efficiency, and of historical productivity growth, to assist with the setting of price-caps or any of incentive based regulatory mechanism requiring the measurement of efficiency, such as yardstick competition.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821353799
• ISBN 13: 9780821353790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134