Productivity in Swedish electricity retail distribution

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to analyze electricity retail distribution in Sweden. The study employs nonparametric data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist index in a multiple output-multiple input framework. Variations of productivity across different ownership and service types are examined. Results show that economies of density generate a high productivity growth rate and exhibit no productivity variations among ownership or service types.

Electric services, Analysis, Services, Electric power distribution

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Parametric approaches to productivity measurement: a comparison among alternative models

Article Abstract:

Six competing parametric models are used to determine whether similarities in the measures of total factor productivity growth, technical change, returns to scale, input elasticities and input and scale biases are present among these models. The models are used to estimate technical change and productivity in the Swedish cement industry over the period 1955-1979. The empirical results turn out to be model dependent and often conflicting.

Cement, hydraulic, Cement, Cement Manufacturing, Models, Economic aspects, Cement industry, Industrial productivity, Productivity accounting

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Decomposing technical change with panel data: an application to the public sector

Article Abstract:

The use of two panel data models for measuring technical change is considered. Specifically, the time trend model and general index model were applied to approximate technical change in Swedish Social Insurance Offices between 1974 and 1987 on the basis of 366 observations annually. The models, which decomposed technical change into its 'pure and non-neutral components,' employed a single-input requirement function with four outputs.

Public sector, Index numbers (Economics)

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