become richer, smaller and older. How do these changes impact household water and electricity demands? This paper answers the … per capita water and electricity consumptions by more than 20% for one fewer family member. Households with more women in … electricity consumptions increase in hotter or drier months. Smaller households are more sensitive to weather variabilities by …

We conduct a large scale randomized field experiment to study whether providing recipients - 42,454 Chinese households … exceeding the average monthly salary of a household. Besides providing nominal cost information, we conduct two additional …

It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is …

This study applies financial portfolio theory to determine efficient electricity-generating technology portfolios for … the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of …, and Solar in the case of Switzerland, a country without domestic supplies of fossil fuels. Since shocks in generation …

This paper examines the predictive power of weather for electricity prices in day-ahead markets in real time. We find … that next-day weather forecasts improve the forecast accuracy of day-ahead electricity prices substantially, suggesting … electricity prices can be further exploited by allowing for non-linear effects of the weather forecasts. …

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on price formation in electricity markets. For this, we conduct an … analysis of the German electricity wholesale spot market which is located at the European Energy Exchange (EEX). Our dataset …

The mechanism behind price formation in electricity futures markets is still under discussion. Theory suggests that … discussion through an empirical investigation of electricity futures for delivery in Germany traded at the European Energy …