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Theoretical and empirical evaluation of a competitive energy rebate program
Ta, Chi L. - 2021
Rebates that reward economic agents if they meet a minimum conservation threshold are a popular policy to encourage energy conservation. However, most threshold-based rebates are structured such that they do not encourage reduction beyond the threshold. In this paper, I show theoretically that...
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Limited attention in the housing market : threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments
Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2020
We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...
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Carbon prices are redundant in the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package
Aune, Finn Roar; Golombek, Rolf - 2018
In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions - the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council - was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its...
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A life-cycle theory analysis of french household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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Promoting sales of energy efficient household appliances : outcomes and cost effectiveness of rebate programs
Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2021
This paper studies seven rebate programs aiming at accelerating the replacement of energy-intensive household …
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Energy expenditure in Egypt : empirical evidence based on a quantile regression approach
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe - 2021
This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of household energy expenditure. Unsurprisingly, income, age, household size … impact, while socio-economic attributes have a much larger one. The largest variations in household energy expenditures in …
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Microeconomics of the rebound effect for residential solar photovoltaic systems
Oliver, Matthew E.; Moreno Cruz, Juan; Beppler, Ross C. - 2019
improvement in the energy efficiency of a household's appliances, but to the supply of a zero-marginal-cost perfect substitute for …
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Solar rebound : the unintended consequences of subsidies
Boccard, Nicolas; Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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Did US consumers 'save for a rainy day' before the Great Recession?
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Nymoen, Ragnar - 2015
The 'saving for a rainy day' hypothesis implies that households' saving decisions reflect that they can (rationally) predict future income declines. The empirical relevance of this hypothesis plays a key role in discussions of fiscal policy multipliers and it holds under the null that the...
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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent? : evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods
Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Ruffle, Bradley J. (contributor) - 2008
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