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The European Commission‘s Light Bulb Decree: Another Costly Regulation?
Frondel, Manuel; Lohmann, Steffen - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
light bulbs, light-emitting diodes (LED), or compact fluorescent light bulbs? often referred to as energy-saving light bulbs … consumed will not only lead to lower energy cost for private households and industrial consumers, but at the same time lead to … a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. This article discusses possible reasons for the slow market diffusion of energy …
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Heterogeneity in the Rebound Eff ect – Further Evidence for Germany
Frondel, Manuel; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Rebound effects measure the behaviorally induced offset in the reduction of energy consumption following efficiency …
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Re-Identifying the Rebound – What About Asymmetry?
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
Rebound eff ects measure the behaviorally induced off set in the reduction of energy consumption following effi ciency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321167
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A Count Data Analysis of Ridership in Germany’s Public Transport
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Focusing on adult members of German households, this paper investigates the determinants of public transit ridership with the aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices, fares, person-level attributes, and characteristics of the transit system on transport counts over a five-day week. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679790
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Asymmetry – Resurrecting the Roots
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This note attempts to reconcile a range of primary methods for dealing with price asymmetry, such as the approaches proposed by Tweeten and Quance (1969), Wolffram (1971) and Houk(1977). Using Wolffram’s stylized example, we first illustrate that the notion of asymmetry can be captured in a...
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Heterogeneity in the Effect of Home Energy Audits – Theory and Evidence
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
A longstanding question in the study of energy demand concerns the role of information as a determinant of home …-efficiency improvements. Although the provision of information via home energy audits is frequently asserted to be an effective means for …
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Optimal Renewable-Energy Subsidies
Andor, Mark; Voss, Achim - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
We derive optimal subsidization of renewable energies in electricity markets. The analysis takes into account that capacity investment must be chosen under uncertainty about demand conditions and capacity availability, and that capacity as well as electricity generation may be sources of...
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Fuel Taxes versus Efficiency Standards – An Instrumental Variable Approach
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
Using household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2012, we employ an instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimate fuel price and efficiency elasticities. The aim is to gauge the relative impacts of fuel economy standards and fuel taxes on distance traveled. We find that...
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Is the German Retail Gas Market Competitive? A Spatial-temporal Analysis Using Quantile Regression
Vance, Colin; Kihm, Alexander; Ritter, Nolan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
We explore whether non-competitive pricing prevails in Germany’s retail gasoline market by examining the influence of the crude oil price on the retail gasoline price, focusing specifically on how this influence varies according to the brand and to the degree of competition in the vicinity of...
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Combating Deforestation? – Impacts of Improved Stove Dissemination on Charcoal Consumption in Urban Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
With 2.7 billion people relying on woodfuels for cooking in developing countries, the dissemination of improved cooking stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an effective instrument to combat deforestation particularly in arid countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of an ICS dissemination...
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