When a panel carries out a brainstorming session on an issue or research question, it is often difficult to apply text summarization to the brainstorming notes. This either gives the power of editing conclusions to the panel leader, which may favor some ideas, and/or slows down considerably the...

This paper summarizes the approaches, assumptions, and needed sub-models, optimization principles and data aiming at a time dependent control system minimizing the CO2 emissions from houses in the existing housing stock. It contrasts the proposed research with the many available housing energy...

This paper, to appear as a Chapter in a book, addresses the idea of applying green tariffs as incentives towards energy savings in communication networks, and mobile networks in particular. A first Section addresses regulatory, economic and microeconomic measures in general relevant in this...

Considerable micro-level evidence suggests that price/wage contract durations fluctuate with the state of the economy, particularly inflation; nonetheless, macro-level evidence for this is scarce. We incorporate state-dependent price/wage setting into an open economy DSGE model to investigate...