between financial barriers (e. g. credit constraints), information and knowledge (e. g. energy management practices), salience … combination with commercial and confidential firm-level data. Our results suggest that energy management practices have a … the imposed ambitious climate and energy policy targets. We use data from 701 structured telephone interviews in …

determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means … of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the cost-minimizing energy demand function at the two-digit industry level …

measures on the hedging strategies. For motivation and application purposes hedging in electricity markets is chosen, because … to the German Electricity markets. …

This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data … respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss specification tests. The empirical analysis is based on business survey data taken from …

information about the capital costs of the network provider. This paper puts forward to delegate the choice of the network …

concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … expenditures and employment adjustment. The empirical results are encouraging and show that the disequilibrium model is flexible …

regional data sources of the federal German statistical office and of the federal German employment office. …In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and … merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be …

In electricity day-ahead markets organized as uniform price auction, a small reduction in supply in times of high … demand can cause substantial increases in price. We use a unique data set of failures of generation capacity in the German …-Austrian electricity market to investigate the relationship between electricity spot prices and generation failures. Differentiating …

We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German … electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent …