This paper assesses energy efficiency in Swedish industry. Using unique firm-level panel data covering the years 2001-2008, the efficiency estimates are obtained for firms in 14 industrial sectors by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The analysis accounts for multi-output technologies where...

This paper estimates firm level energy efficiency and its determinants in 14 sectors of Swedish manufacturing by using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). We derive energy demand frontiers both from cost minimizing and profit maximizing perspectives. To account for firms’ heterogeneity,...

Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the industrial sector for addressing potentially adverse effects on firms' competitiveness. Firms that use more electricity than certain thresholds established by legislation, pay reduced...

We use a translog cost function to model production in the Irish manufacturing sector over the period from 1991 to 2009. We estimate both own- and cross-price elasticities and Morishima elasticities of substitution between capital, labour, materials and energy. We find that capital and energy...

In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the...

Während amtliche Daten zur Umsatzentwicklung unterjährig zur Verfügung stehen und vergleichsweise zeitnah vorliegen, weisen die nur jährlich erscheinenden Strukturstatistiken in der Regel einen erheblichen zeitlichen Verzug auf. Aussagen über die aktuelle Ertragssituation in einem...

We address the role of migrant workers from extra-EU countries in Italian manufacturing production at the firm-level. Cross price and demand elasticities confirm the complementarity found in previous studies between migrants and natives, which holds when native workers are split into white and...

O artigo explora as características das atividades inovadoras empreendidas pelas firmas brasileiras sob diferentes regimes tecnológicos. Seguindo as evidências da PINTEC 2005 com a aplicação de análises de agrupamento novos regimes tecnológicos são propostos. Os resultados confirmam a...

Although the relation between investment and economic growth has been well established in the macroeconomic literature, the existence of a similar link at firm level has been challenged by empirical work. This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French...

The general objective of the study is to develop a methodology for the preparation of greenhouse-gas abatement curves for the energy demand sector, incorporating the uncertainty associated to the variables involved in estimating the marginal abatement costs. Furthermore, this approach will be...