We analyze the drivers and barriers that influence investments increasing the energy efficiency of firms' production … between financial barriers (e. g. credit constraints), information and knowledge (e. g. energy management practices), salience … of energy-related topics, and the investments in energy saving technologies. A better understanding of firms' investment …

We analyze the drivers and barriers that influence investments increasing the energy efficiency of firms' production … between financial barriers (e. g. credit constraints), information and knowledge (e. g. energy management practices), salience … of energy-related topics, and the investments in energy saving technologies. A better understanding of firms' investment …

Despite the vast literature on the energy-efficiency gap, there is a general dearth of investment models which … incorporate the consumer's temporal freedom in the investment decision. Focusing on the building sector, we formulate optimal … investment in energy efficiency as a problem of wealth growth-rate maximisation under uncertainty, subject to the diminishing …