João F. Cocco (LBS, CEPR), Bernardo Mendes (LBS) and S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan (LBS, CEPR) examine the true drivers of green financing programs such as green mortgages. Are they real drivers of energy efficiency or marketing instruments?
Jacopo Ponticelli (Nortwestern University), Qiping Xu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Stefan Zeume (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business) show that extreme temperatures between 1980s and 2010s jointly increased energy costs and decreased productivity of small manufacturing plants in the U.S.
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