Small and Medium Sized European Firms and Energy Efficiency Measures: A Probit Analysis
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Keywords
energy efficiency measures; EPI; financing; SMEs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2022-12-12 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-EFF-2022-12-12 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENE-2022-12-12 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2022-12-12 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-ENV-2022-12-12 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-SBM-2022-12-12 (Small Business Management)
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