Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In … particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the … interaction between suppliers and customers (smart grids). Power generation by renewable energy sources can also benefit from this …

The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several … scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of … individual and groups of countries and to analyze the environmental effects of energy policies. Previous studies have analyzed …

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In … emissions have renewed the interest in the development of alternative energy resources. In particular, the Fukushima Daiichi … accident was a turning point in the call for alternative energy sources. Renewable energy is now considered a more desirable …

Although there is strong support for renewable energy plants, they are often met with local resistance. We quantify the … externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently …

; is U-shaped in age and un-trended over time in the USA although they are trended up in a number of EU countries and …

actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …

The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member … states' citizens, the need for adjustment became ever more important during the Great Recession, which affected EU member … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional …

immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …