Whether energy efficiency performance can be improved by environmental regulations is an important issue for governmental policy-making. This study investigates the impact of Tokyo and Saitama regional emissions trading schemes (ETSs) on energy efficiency and outsourcing-induced carbon leakage...

To foster domestic electricity production, Japan introduced a Feed-in-Tariff policy in 2012, financed by a renewable levy. This paper examines the impact of this tax on industrial, energy intensive (EI) sectors using plant data from 2005 to 2018. We explore whether the introduction of the levy...

An energy audit is a popular policy instrument for improving energy efficiency in facilities. However, it is unclear whether they serve to improve energy efficiency, because even under energy audits, several barriers to energy efficiency exist. Additional practices such as information provision,...