This paper presents a method of estimating the energy expenditure of Italian manufacturing firms with 20 or more employees for the period 2003-11. Use is made of multiple sources in order to impute firm-level energy consumption in the dataset of the Bank of Italy�s Survey of Industrial and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of product quality in differentiated-products markets in determining the structure of competition among firms. Design/methodology/approach First, two distinct models of firm heterogeneity are considered as two possible structures...

We try, in this paper, to emphasise the role of market structure in the adoption of cleaner production technologies. The paper comes within the framework of the research carried out around the Porter hypothesis, according to which the integration of environmental constraints by firms can induce...