Do Private Utilities Outperform Local Government-Owned Utilities? Evidence from German Retail Electricity

Artikel

Against the background of remunicipalisation trends in European public service sectors, this paper estimates firm-level productivity for German electricity retailers and tests whether the ownership type has a significant impact on productivity. We specify a production function for the retail sector with labour and external services as main inputs, which is estimated using a control function approach. Employing a newly constructed dataset on German utilities by the German Federal Statistical Office for the years 2003-12, we find that firm-level productivity generally increased until 2008 but not afterwards. We do not find any evidence for ownership having an impact on productivity.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: German Economic Review ; ISSN: 1465-6485 ; Volume: 19 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 401-425 ; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: productivity ; retail electricity ; ownership ; structural prodction function

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stiel, Caroline ; Cullmann, Astrid ; Nieswand, Maria
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): De Gruyter ; ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (wo): Berlin, Boston
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1111/geer.12134
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223233
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ