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Environmental policies and energy efficiency investments. An industry-level analysis Garcia-Quevedo, Jose Jové Llopis, Elisenda Política energètica Eficiència industrial Canvi climàtic Energy policy Industrial efficiency Climatic change 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. 2021-09-09T07:23:55Z 2023-09-01T05:10:22Z 2021-09-01 2021-09-09T07:23:57Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112461 Energy Policy, 2021, vol. 156, num. 112461 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112461 cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier B.V., 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Elsevier B.V. Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)