The European Green Deal proposes a series of measures to the EU Member States in order to adopt policies on how to use and produce green energy, support new clean technologies, and reduce noise, air and water pollution. The target referring to reducing emissions by at least 50% by 2030 has...

A persistent concern in the literature on climate policy is that the emissions abatement, which is achieved via environmental regulation, has potentially adverse affects on firms' economic performance. I investigate this issue in the context of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU...

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We employ the Stochastic Frontier Analysis in order to obtain inefficiency estimates and its determinants on the set of 183 cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work...