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Does Information Feedback from In-Home Devices Reduce Electricity Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Attari, Shahzeen Z. - 2014

There is limited evidence of behavioral changes resulting from electricity information feedback. Using a randomized control trial from a New York apartment building, we study long-term effects of information feedback from "Modlet" in-home devices, which provide near-real-time plug-level...

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The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies : Evidence from Field Experiments

Brandon, Alec; Clapp, Christopher M.; List, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Smart-home technologies have been heralded as an important way to increase energy conservation. While in vitro engineering estimates provide broad optimism, little has been done to explore whether such estimates scale beyond the lab. We estimate the causal impact of smart thermostats on energy...

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The Role of Demand Management in the Maintenance of Full Employment

McCallum, Bennett T. - 1988

This paper begins by identifying nominal price stickiness as the logical basis for the Keynesian or activist point of view concerning demand management policy. It then characterizes two alternative approaches to policy analysis that have been adopted by adherents of the Keynesian position, the...

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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers

Blau, David M. - 1999

We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child … development. Taking the estimated cost-quality and revenue-quality relationships as given, we then estimate the objective … functions of the firms and compute the supply function for quality. The results indicate that (1) the estimated cost function is …

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What Do You Think About Climate Finance?

Stroebel, Johannes; Wurgler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We survey 861 finance academics, professionals, and public sector regulators and policy economists about climate finance topics. They identify regulatory risk as the top climate risk to businesses and investors over the next five years, but they view physical risks as the top risk over the next...

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A Penny for Your Thoughts

Hanlon, W. Walker; Heblich, Stephan; Monte, Ferdinando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

spatially-varied reduction in the cost of communicating across locations. We study the impact of this reform on the production …

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Inflation, Tariffs and Tax Enforcement Costs

Aizenman, Joshua - 1985

This paper derives the dependency of optimal tariff and inflation tax on tax collection and enforcement costs. The analysis is done for a small, open economy. The existence of such costs can justify tariff and inflation tax policies as optimal revenue-raising devices. This paper suggests that...

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Citizen Rights and the Cost of Law Enforcement

Reder, Melvin - 1973

considerations of opportunity cost. Remarks about rights to life, liberty, health, justice and the like are readily inserted into …

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The Cost of Convenience : Ridehailing and Traffic Fatalities

Barrios, John M. - 2020

time. Back-of-the-envelope estimates of the annual cost in human lives range from $5.33B to $13.24B …

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Entry Costs and the Macroeconomy

Gutiérrez, Germán - 2019

We propose a model to identify the causes of rising profits and concentration, and declining entry and investment in the US economy. Our approach combines a rich structural DSGE model with cross-sectional identification from firm and industry data. Using asset prices, our model estimates the...

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