This study provides new evidence on the determinants of environmental <italic>expenditure</italic> and <italic>investment</italic>. In particular, it investigates how environmental expenditure and investment of Swedish industrial firms responded to climate policies, such as the European Union's Emission Trading System (EU ETS)...

We employ a unique field experimental setting to study the spillover effects of social comparisons on energy and water use in the residential sector. We find that electricity use-targeted social comparison induces conservation beyond electricity, leading to substantial reductions in energy use...

This paper extends the literature on energy-related financial literacy by examining its role in collective energy retrofit investment decisions in post-Soviet countries, which suffer from suboptimal levels of these investments purportedly due to a lack of energy-specific knowledge and financial...

Numerous field experiments have proven that various monetary and informational incentives encourage demand response by increasing awareness about peak electricity prices and potentially inefficient energy use. However, very little is known about the effects of such interventions on overall...

A rather large literature argue that firms and households do not improve energy efficiency by investing in new technology despite that is cost-effective to do so. If this is the case people would be able to reduce their energy bills and spend their money on more pleasurable things. We argue that...

Energifrågorna står högt upp på de politiska agendorna världen över. Förnybar energi, energieffektivisering och smarta elnät är politiska ledord i de strategier som dras upp för framtidens elmarknader. Smarta elnät är ”jokern i leken” som sägs möjliggöra för både mer...