Rising prices in the German wholesale electricity market have spurred discussions about the potentials and the abuse of market power. Particularly since the introduction of emission certificates, electricity prices increased continuously closely related to rising certificate prices. The oligopolistic structure of the German market with four major players owning 90% of the capacities (Bundeskart...

Empirical evidence is provided to show that peer effects have statistically significant and positive impacts on the diffusion of green building certificates. Application and approval records of green certificates by commercial buildings in NY and AZ are used. The challenge of self-selection is addressed by the usage of fixed effects and the challenge of reflection is addressed by the time lag d...

The cement industry is an important industrial entity responsible for implementing carbon emission reduction targets. Considering the trading and green certificate mechanisms, this paper presents a multi-stage planning approach constructed Cement-Industrial Integrated Energy System (Cement-IIES). Carbon technologies represented by low-temperature waste heat recovery, as well phased changes in e...

In this paper, greening, pricing, and advertising policies in a supply chain will be examined with government intervention. The supply chain has two members. First, a manufacturer seeking to determine the wholesale price and the greening level and second, a retailer that has to determine the advertising cost and the retail price. The government is trying to encourage the manufacturer to green t...

In the European energy policy debate, tradable green certificates (TGC) have been suggested to be a superior regulatory framework for promoting the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. The purpose of this paper is to assess the performance of the Swedish TGC system, contributing to the European debate on the suitability of different types of frameworks. The expectations of the TGC system...

The objective of this study is to present a formal agent-based modeling (ABM) platform that enables managers to predict and partially control patterns of behaviors in certain engineered complex adaptive systems (ECASs). The approach integrates social networks, social science, complex systems, and di↵usion theory into a consumer-based optimization and agent-based modeling (ABM) platform. Demonst...

Green supplier selection involves a difficult and complex decision-making process because the criteria have relationship with each other. Due to conflicts, becomes crucial. Likewise, strategies among alternatives are critical decide best one. To overcome these difficulties, multi-criteria decision making methods game theory approaches appropriate. In this study, fuzzy SWARA, which is multicrite...

Nowadays, paying attention to the environmental needs and desires of consumersand trying to satisfy them by designing marketing activities in an environmentallyfriendly way, is the best way to increase their satisfaction and finally, gaincompetitive advantage. Prior research has paid much attention to the consumerbehavior and marketing activities of corporate organizations, but none has studied...

Green performance measure is vital for enterprises in making continuous improvements to maintain sustainable competitive advantages. Evaluation of green performance, however, is a challenging task due to the dependence complexity of the aspects, criteria, and the linguistic vagueness of some qualitative information and quantitative data together. To deal with this issue, this study proposes a n...