GSK's electric frontier

Estimating the technology frontier for personal electric vehicles

The personal electric vehicle (PEV) emerged as a new category of transportation device in the late 1990s. PEVs transport a single passenger over trip distances of 1–10 km and employ electricity as the motive energy source. The category is principally comprised of electric-powered scooters and cycles. Personal electric vehicles offer several potential benefits to consumers and to society includi...

Benchmarking the Efficiency of Philippines Electric Cooperatives Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis

This paper attempts to determine alternative methods of benchmarking the efficiency of electric companies to aid the regulator in crafting policies in enticing them to pursue more efficient production. This paper utilizes the data of electric cooperatives (ECs) in the Philippines, the one in charge of missionary electrification yet the smallest and most heavily indebted part of distribution sec...

Frontier Sores

(1) An acute phagedenic ulcer, circular in outline with sharp punched out edges usually commencing on the site of some trivial abrasion not necessarily of recent origin. The rapid increase in area and depth of the ulcer was appalling. Within 24 or 48 hours a trivial abrasion might become an ulcer as big as a rupee and with deep fascia exposed in its base. Considerable swelling of surrounding ti...

Last Frontier

Frontier Finance

A growing community of long time horizon institutional investors that includes sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other beneficiary institutions located in cities outside of the major international financial centers (IFCs), is pushing back against the misaligned incentives and power asymmetries present in the for-profit asset management industry. This expanding group of beneficiary inst...