"In 2002 the European Union passed the directive 2002/91/EC, ídirective on the energy performance of buildingsî, as a key element of its strategy to comply with the Kyoto protocol. The aim of the directive is to improve the energy efficiency of buildings in the area of the European Union. A...

The research communities of regional science and those of real estate research have very little overlap. They typically do not attend the same conferences and seem to use different journals. For example, of the 719 citations in the journal íReal Estate Economicsî in 2006 only three were to the...

In this paper we deal with the question of whether there exists an incentive for landlords to invest into energy efficiency of buildings in the Austrian real estate market. We discuss the general framework of the issue, which is characterized by the fact that landlords control the energy...