Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223233 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] German Economic Review [ISSN:] 1465-6485 [Volume:] 19 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] De Gruyter [Place:] Berlin, Boston [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 401-425
Publisher: 
De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
productivity
retail electricity
ownership
structural prodction function
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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