Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

You would like to understand your cost structure, benchmark efficiency or measure productivity. We support you with informative cost analysis, benchmarking, and performance measurement:

Cost structure assessment. We quantitatively assess your cost structure, identify cost drivers, compute economies of scale, scope and density and highlight how you can take advantage of it.

Internal benchmarking. Using state-of-the-art econometric methods, we evaluate the efficiency of your production units.

Competitive benchmarking. We identify best practices in your sector and advise you on how to improve your efficiency.

Productivity measurement. We measure productivity based on econometric methods, Malmquist or Törnqvist-Indexes.

Contact

Urs Trinkner is the Managing Director of Swiss Economics and Lecturer at the University of Zurich.

Nicolas Oderbolz is an Economist with Swiss Economics.

Andreas Stritt is an Economist with Swiss Economics.

Get to know our whole team.

Selected Projects

What are the main cost drivers of power grids? How efficient are German distribution system operators (DSOs)?

How resource and energy efficient are different DLT applications?

Are the processes of a federal office adequately organised?

How could benchmarking be implemented in the hospital sector?

How should the system for the new regulatory period for the Austrian gas distribution networks be defined?

Have German gas and electricity networks become more productive? At what level should the Xgen be set for the fourth regulatory period?

How efficient are German transmission system operators (TSOs)?

How efficient are European electricity and gas transmission system operators?

How effective are non-pharmaceutical measures in containing the coronavirus and how high are the costs of specific measures?

How effective are non-pharmaceutical measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus?

What are the relevant cost drivers of gas pipelines? How efficient are the German gas transmission operators in the photo year 2020?

Can regulatory benchmarking contribute to "Better Regulation"?

How do increases in decentralized power affect the cost of local power grids? How high is the efficiency of German distribution system operators (DSOs)?

How efficient are European electricity and gas transmission system operators (TSOs)?

What are the relevant cost drivers of gas pipelines? How efficient are the German gas transmission operators (TSOs) in the base year 2015?

How efficient are European gas transmission system operators (TSOs)?

Publications

Report on behalf of Bundesnetzagentur

Report on behalf of Autorité de régulation des transports

Report on behalf of Autorité de régulation des transports

Expert report on behalf of Bundesnetzagentur

Die Volkswirtschaft, 6/2019, S. 4-7.

Report for the Commission for Aviation Regulation

Report on behalf of Bundesnetzagentur

Umweltschutz der Wirtschaft, issue 4/18-19, p. 33-34

Expert report on behalf of the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKÖ)

Report for Bundesnetzagentur

Study for Bundesnetzagentur

Pharmaceutical Dialogue, No 32, 4

In: Heightening Competition in the Postal and Delivery Sector, edited by M.A. Crew and P.R. Kleindorfer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar