Despite substantial interest in the role of energy in the economy, the degree of substitutability between energy and other production inputs, and the way energy should be included in the production function remain unresolved issues. Our study provides industry-level parameter estimates of...

We consider a delegation problem with a biased and potentially uninformed agent when the principal cannot use monetary payments. If the bias between the principal and the agent is large then the optimal delegation set is an interval. When the bias is small or medium the optimal delegation set is...