This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that … consideration of such market processes may have important implications for the efficiency of environmental policies concerned with … energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under …

drivers of their efficiency profiles. In this context, we will address in particular the drivers and barriers for the …, a modern operational approach-originating from organizational theory-that aims to make a comparative study of … quantitative efficiency differences between individual decision-making units (DMUs), viz. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is …

This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban … externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need … pursued in future research on urban externalities. These include (1) the explicit consideration of mutual interactions between …

of interactingeconomic and ecological subsystems, inter alia in relation to spatial externalities and …