No-regret Potentials in Energy Conservation : an Analysis of Their Relevance, Size and Determinants /

The climate change debate has stimulated a controversy on the existence and size of potentials to reduce energy consumption at an economic benefit, so-called no-regret potentials. This book develops a theoretical evaluation framework with particular focus on transaction costs and real option theory....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostertag, Katrin
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 2003.
Series:Technology, Innovation and Policy, Series of the Fraunhofer Institue for Systems and Innovation Research ISI ; 15.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction: The debate on no-regret potentials
  • origin, context, issues; The issues of the no-regret controversy
  • Part II: Theory-based framework for the reassessment of no-regret potentials: The standard theory of market failure; Transaction cost economics; Investment appraisal; Complementary perspectives on the no-regret potential; Theoretical conclusions
  • A typology of no-regret potentials
  • Part III: Empirical analyses: Case study of electric motors; Case study of "Contracting"; Generalisation of case study results
  • General conclusions.