Rebound effects significantly reduce the effectiveness of energy efficiency in delivering energy use reductions. The understanding of the underlying rebound mechanisms causing this is however scarce. This paper illustrates that industrial energy efficiency improvements in Switzerland lead to...

This dissertation investigates the impact of openness variables such as FDI and trade on countries’ productivity in ASEAN and on three other countries’ economies (China, South Korea, and Japan) through the efficiency improvement channel. It is the first study to distinguish the impact of...

This study investigates technical efficiency of wood and metal manufacturing enterprise in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopian, using cross sectional data collected from 220 manufacturing enterprise. To achieve the objective of the study the stochastic frontier production function estimated to obtain...

AbstractPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether firm efficiency can explain the investment anomaly. The investment anomaly refers to the persistent negative relation between firm growth and future risk-adjusted returns. When firms grow by investing heavily, the market often...

This study examines the technical inefficiency of small and medium Japanese manufacturing firms by using panel data from the Basic Survey on Small and Medium Enterprises (2009-2018). We estimate the stochastic frontier production function with four production factors (regular workers,...

The catalytic activity of the peroxophosphomolybdate (nBu4N)3{PO4[MoO(O2)2]4} (PMo4) was optimized for the oxidative desulfurization of a multicomponent model diesel. Its heterogenization in distinct MOFs supporting structures (MIL-101, MOF-808 and ZIF-8) was performed and the catalytic activity...

Decarbonization is a huge challenge for the entire world, as well as for shipping industry. Energy efficiency improvements are an important part of the GHG reductions, and new possibilities for this emerge especially in the field of waste heat recovery, once the industry is transferring into...

This paper studies the role of ownership structure in determining the relationship between firm characteristics and credit constraints affecting firm level investment. Firm size is a significant determinant of credit constraints in case of business group un-affiliated firms, domestic firms, and...

Using a quasi-natural experiment and the city-level panel data from 2009 to 2018 in China, this paper investigates the impact of broadband infrastructure on green total factor energy efficiency. Results show that the policy intervention of Broadband China has significantly improved the green...

We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...