. Estimation results show that this relationship is upward sloping. Nonparametric specification tests do not reject monotonicity …

One of the most promising ways of meeting climate policy targets is improving energy efficiency, i.e. reducing the … begin with an aggregated picture of EU27 energy intensity and its evolution between 1995 and 2009. Then we dig deeper and …27 into countries for regional analysis and perform a sectoral disaggregation for a fine-grained picture of energy …

to less severe increases of emissions. The deployment of cleaner energy sources had a positive in some, mainly developed …

survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …

high growth rates in recent years were largely due to increased outsourcing activities of the manufacturing sector. In this … between sales growth rates of the business-related service sector against growth rates of various series of the manufacturing …

The political discussion on energy efficiency is focusing more and more on the building sector due to its … susceptibility to potential market failures like the negative external pollution effects of CO2 emission. Using a discrete choice … approach, this paper aims at deriving factors which increase the willingness to pay (WTP) for energy efficiency in the case of …

We apply a quadratic expenditure system to estimate price and expenditure elasticities of residential energy demand … response to energy price changes is weaker (stronger) for low-income (top-income) households. There are considerable economies … of scale in residential energy use but scale effects are not well approximated by the new OEDC equivalence scale. Real …