We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK … electricity use. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the tax had no detrimental effects on economic performance and on plant exit …

match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that …We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

ex post of consumption. Four years of data from a Regional Electricity Company (REC) in the United Kingdom is used to …This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … purchasing electricity according to the half-hourly energy prices from the England and Wales (E&W) electricity market. These …

decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly … available information. However, the manager can use her informational advantage to make choices that are not in the best … interest of the principal. As the available public information about the specific technology increases, the trade-off shifts in …

evidence on the role that ideas about family planning played in this transition. We begin by documenting a link between the … famous Bradlaugh-Besant trial that took place in England in 1877, which revolved around the morality of family planning, and …

railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, and a quantitative urban model to provide …