Similar Search Results

The potential role of hydrogen towards a low-carbon residential heating in Italy

Tavella, Sergio; Noussan, Michel - 2021

Buildings' heating represents an important share of the total energy consumption in Italy, and to reach the challenging … presents an analysis of different scenarios comparing the penetration of buildings' heating technologies for the residential … natural gas. The analysis compares the potential role of these technologies in reaching a decarbonized residential heating by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519957

Sectoral electricity demand and direct rebound effect in New Zealand

Nepal, Rabindra; Al Irsyad, Muhammad Indra; Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020

This paper is one of the limited studies to investigate rebound effects in sectoral electricity consumption and the specific case of New Zealand. New Zealand, like other OECD economies, has aimed for energy efficiency improvements and reduced electricity consumption from 9.2 MWh per capita in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255110

Correlation within SNCF administrative regions among track segment maintenance cost equation residuals of a country-wide model

Gaudry, Marc J. I.; Quinet, Emile - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302502

When nature calls back : sustaining behavioural change in rural Pakistan

Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; Durrani, Zara; … - 2021

We implement a mixed method approach that combines a randomized controlled trial and qualitative data collection to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained. We do so in the context of Pakistan’s national sanitation strategy to combat open defecation, Community-Led...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802318

Coordination and the poor maintenance trap : an experiment on public infrastructure in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2021

delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and … facilities to either a control or two treatments. The ﬁrst treatment incentivizes maintenance of the facility among providers … incentivizing maintenance does not favor collective action. The treatments raise the quality of facilities and reduce free riding …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583568

Box-Cox transformations of terms nesting the Trans-Log : the example of rail infrastructure maintenance cost

Gaudry, Marc J. I.; Quinet, Emile - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674401

Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities : theory and experimental evidence from india

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2023

This study explores the interaction between the quality of public services, the implementation of user fees, and the resulting potential for exclusion, that can lead to negative externalities. Our theoretical framework takes account of the possible externalities that result from excluded users...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428061

Fiscal decentralization and public infrastructure maintenance expenditures : a cross-country panel analysis

Chen, Can; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446591

Road maintenance and local economic development : evidence from Indonesia's highways

Gertler, Paul J.; González-Navarro, Marco; Gračner, Tadeja - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446690

Public service delivery and free riding : experimental evidence from India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2022

This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a ﬁeld experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326510