We develop a large customer-level database to study electricity pricing to U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 2000 …-pricing interpretation of quantity discounts. Spatial dispersion in retail electricity prices among states, counties and utility service …

model predictions using micro-data from the Iberian electricity market. We show that the observed price differences and firm …

There is limited evidence of behavioral changes resulting from electricity information feedback. Using a randomized …-home devices, which provide near-real-time plug-level information. We find a 12–23% decrease in electricity use for treatment … apartments, concentrated among individuals reporting higher willingness-to-pay for an energy monitoring system. Decrease in …

This review paper provides an overview of the application of behavioral public economics to energy efficiency. I … document policymakers' arguments for "paternalistic" energy efficiency policies, formalize with a simple model of misoptimizing …

variation at spatial discontinuities in electricity service areas, where households in the same city experience substantially … unsuccessful in achieving its policy goal of energy conservation and critically changes the welfare implications of nonlinear …

Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the …-time pricing" for electricity and increase price elasticity of demand. This paper simulates the effects of this increased demand … elasticity using counterfactual simulations in a structural model of the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland electricity market. The …

While time-varying retail electricity pricing is very popular with economists, that support is not matched among … electricity pricing -- critical-peak pricing -- and suggest how it might be designed to more accurately match retail price spikes …

Prior to the 1990s, most electricity customers in the U.S. were served by regulated, vertically-integrated, monopoly … utilities that handled electricity generation, transmission, local distribution and billing/collections. Regulators set retail … electricity prices to allow the utility to recover its prudently incurred costs, a process known as cost-of-service regulation …

-owned plants in states that restructured their wholesale electricity markets improved the most. The results suggest modest medium …