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| Title: | | Overcoming data limitations in nonparametric benchmarking: applying PCA-DEA to natural gas transmission  |
| Authors: | | Nieswand, Maria Cullmann, Astrid Neumann, Anne |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // German Institute for Economic Research 962 |
| Abstract: | | This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency measurement to US natural gas transmission companies in 2007. This allows us to reduce dimensions of the optimization problem while maintaining most of the variation in the original data. Our results suggest that the PCA-DEA methodology reduces the probability of over-estimation of the individual firm-specific performance. It also allows for a large number of original variables without substantially reducing the discriminatory power of the model. |
| Subjects: | | Efficiency analysis DEA PCA company regulation natural gas transmission |
| JEL: | | C14 L51 L95 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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