A rather large literature argue that firms and households do not improve energy efficiency by investing in new technology despite that is cost-effective to do so. If this is the case people would be able to reduce their energy bills and spend their money on more pleasurable things. We argue that...

This note describes how Operator Holding Accounts (OHA) and Person Holding Accounts (PHA) from the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) were mapped to their respective parent companies. Its purpose is to provide users of our account-to-firm matching with detailed guidance on the...

To the best of our knowledge, this study is one of the first to empirically analyze the trading behaviour of all ETS firms during the first phase of the EU's Emissions Trading System. We use a unique dataset which allows investigating the importance of permit trading transaction costs, such as...

Water is an increasingly scarce resource. It is often distributed such that consumers do not face any marginal cost of consumption, creating a common pool problem. For instance, tenants in multi-family buildings can often consume both hot and cold water at zero marginal cost. Using...

Purpose: Music mood is an important metadata type on online music repositories and stream music services worldwide. Many existing studies on mood metadata have focused on music websites and services in the Western world to the exclusion of those serving users in other cultures. The purpose of...

Purpose: This study aimed to provide evidence to support the use of a wiki called PBworks as a learning tool to foster students' information literacy (IL) skills based on activity theory. Design/methodology/approach: The participants consisted of 421 students (i.e. form 1 to form 3) from Hong...

The goal of this study is to examine cigarette affordability in Russia between 2002 and 2017 in order to provide an understanding of the country's current tobacco excise tax policy, and to identify opportunities and next steps