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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002449
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A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand
Bélaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251547
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Trust and the Choice between Housing and Financial Assets : Evidence from Spanish Households
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2010
. Combining these estimates with data on Spanish households' financial decisions from the Survey of Household Finances (EFF …) conducted by the Bank of Spain, we show that households with less trust invest more in housing and less in financial assets, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136779
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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021
luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236401
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Family Finances and Debt Overhang : Evolving Consumption Patterns of Spanish Households
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2022
This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …-level panel data for Spain, and focus on a interesting period of analysis, 2002-2017, characterized by large variations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406441
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed - 2014
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066339
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
Ben Youssef, Adel - 2016
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979859
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Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2014
Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055565
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How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2015
This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor demand model is applied in order to link inter-temporal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033816
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Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity : Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Grimm, Michael - 2017
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966822