Climate Zone Crucial for Efficiency of Ski Lift Operators
This paper investigates the efficiency of ski lift companies across different climate zones in a group of countries based on establishment data. By a joint estimation of the stochastic frontier production and efficiency equations, the results indicate that ski areas in subarctic climate zones are fa...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:pra:mprapa:77517 2023-05-15T18:28:18+02:00 Climate Zone Crucial for Efficiency of Ski Lift Operators Falk, Martin Hagsten, Eva https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/77517/1/MPRA_paper_77517.pdf unknown https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/77517/1/MPRA_paper_77517.pdf preprint ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:31:22Z This paper investigates the efficiency of ski lift companies across different climate zones in a group of countries based on establishment data. By a joint estimation of the stochastic frontier production and efficiency equations, the results indicate that ski areas in subarctic climate zones are far more efficient than their counterparts in warmer zones. Presence of a large local market and elevation of the ski area are factors not relevant for efficiency. Output of ski lift operators (companies) increases with the length of ski runs, number of ski lifts, share of slopes covered by snowmaking facilities and availability of fast lifts. Productivity is also significantly higher for ski lift companies owned by a large conglomerate. technical efficiency, stochastic frontier production function, ski lift companies, climate zones, ownership Report Subarctic RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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This paper investigates the efficiency of ski lift companies across different climate zones in a group of countries based on establishment data. By a joint estimation of the stochastic frontier production and efficiency equations, the results indicate that ski areas in subarctic climate zones are far more efficient than their counterparts in warmer zones. Presence of a large local market and elevation of the ski area are factors not relevant for efficiency. Output of ski lift operators (companies) increases with the length of ski runs, number of ski lifts, share of slopes covered by snowmaking facilities and availability of fast lifts. Productivity is also significantly higher for ski lift companies owned by a large conglomerate. technical efficiency, stochastic frontier production function, ski lift companies, climate zones, ownership |
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Climate Zone Crucial for Efficiency of Ski Lift Operators |
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