Voluntary agreements in various forms are being increasingly regarded as an instrument to substitute or complement regulating and pricing instruments. As, from a theoretical point of view, this instrument has strong proponents and opponents, it is important to make a careful analysis of the...

The energy demand and supply projections of the Swiss government funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and carried out by a consortium of institutes and consulting companies are based on two types of energy models: macroeconomic general equilibrium models and bottom-up models for each...

Ergänzend zu den im ifo Schnelldienst 3/2006 veröffentlichten Beiträgen gehen Eberhard Jochem, ETH Zürich, und Harald Bradke, Fraunhofer Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung, davon aus, dass Versorgungssicherheit durch Ausnutzung von Effizienzpotentialen zu erreichen sei. Ihrer...

Discussions about the future options of the energy systems of industrialised countries are held almost exclusively in terms of alternative resources of energy supply and related technologies. This paper tries to broaden the view of the technological options by focusing on the technical and...

Profitable energy-efficiency potentials are often not exploited in industry since management tends not to focus on energy issues. Sharing experiences between companies reveals possibilities for reducing the transaction costs involved. For this purpose, regionally or locally-organised learning...