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Environmental policies and energy efficiency investments. An industry-level analysis
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Energy efficiency is considered a very cost-effective way to mitigate air emissions and improve the economic performance of manufacturing industries. Many countries have implemented measures to increase energy efficiency in industry. These measures include command-and-control and market-based interventions, and they may be specific to a particular firm or sector. Although these policies may have benefits, the results of the empirical analyses of the effects of these interventions on the adoption of energy-saving technologies are not conclusive. The main objective of this paper is to examine the role of different environmental policy measures on energy efficiency investment. We construct a database from several sources for Spanish industries for the period 2010-2017. This gives us information on a broad range of factors and policy instruments that may drive energy efficiency investments. We consider four different instruments: regulation, taxes, subsidies, and tax credits.
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GARCIA-QUEVEDO, Jose and JOVÉ LLOPIS, Elisenda. Environmental policies and energy efficiency investments. An industry-level analysis. Energy Policy. 2021. Vol. 156, num. 112461. ISSN 0301-4215. [consulted: 11 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/179914