Part I Spotlights on Selected European Countries: Russia -- The Netherlands -- Switzerland -- Finland -- Great Britain -- Italy -- Portugal -- Part II Sampling for Telephone Surveys: Who can be contacted by phone? Lessons from Switzerland -- Sampling Frames for Telephone Surveys in Europe --...

Preface -- 1 Local Utilities in the German Electricity Market and their Role in the Diffusion of Innovations in Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation -- 2 Contracting and Mikro-KWK - the Role of Municipal Utilities in Germany -- 3 Governance variety in the energy service contracting...

The response in 2008-09 to the global financial crisis was in many ways a high water mark for transatlantic policy coordination. The major economies of the EU and the US rapidly agreed on a series of measures to limit the crisis. However, the common approach has since unraveled. This paper...