We analyze the drivers and barriers that influence investments increasing the energy efficiency of firms' production processes or buildings in the German manufacturing sector based on microdata. In particular,…
Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level…
The European Central Bank’s Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP), launched in June 2016, increased the supply and lowered the cost of capital for eligible, i.e., investment grade, Eurozone firms through…
We present a stochastic modelling approach to describe the dynamics of hourly electricity prices. The suggested methodology is a stepwise combination of several mathematical operations to adequately characterize…