With policies to promote power generation from renewable energy sources (RES) becoming important part of climate and energy policy worldwide, there is now considerable interest in understanding how these different market-based mechanisms affect power generating firms in practice. The existing...

Given the intensifying debates whether governments should use industrial policies to promote particular renewable energy technologies, the main objective of this study is to investigate the long-run effects of renewable energy support policies on economic growth and employment in 15 European...

The EU farmers are subject to mandatory cross-compliance measures requiring them to meet environmental conditions to be eligible for public support. These obligations reinforce incentives for the farmers to change their behavior towards the environment. We apply quasi-experimental methods to...

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...

A large body of literature shows that the provision of social comparisons can cause households to reduce residential energy and water use. In this paper, we carry out a field experiment that contributes to this literature in two important ways. First, we study a social comparison treatment that...

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of environmental expenditure and investment. Also, by employing the Heckman selection models, we study how environmental expenditure and investment by Swedish industrial firms responded to the national and international policies directed to...

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...

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...

Households typically receive utility bills where all electricity use during a fixed period of time is lumped together. The lack of direct feedback in the form of marginal costs of using specific electric appliances reduces the attention people give to their energy consumption and potentially...

Incomplete information may be one reason why some households do not invest in energy efficiency even though it would benefit them to do so. Energy performance certificates (EPCs) have been promoted to overcome such information shortages. In this paper, we investigate whether EPCs together with...