Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions – often non …

Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is … beneficial with respect to environmental quality, the energy turnaround implies increasing electricity prices for private …

Several countries are considering extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) in order to conserve energy, and the U.S. will …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

, there is some reason hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more … choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …