Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29818 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 962
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
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

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