Residential energy consumption has been increasingly singled out by public policies as a key area for potential … emission reduction. The public implementation of energy efficiency consultants (EECs) as change agents aims at the diffusion of … innovation in building efficiency and overcoming information asymmetries in the construction sector. However, the success of …

The replacement of appliances and other energy using products by more effi-cient ones is generally regarded as an … effective strategy to reduce energy de-mand. However, the savings realized by this strategy may be lower than those …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that … energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of … energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under …