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Internal and external barriers to energy efficiency : made-to-measure policy interventions
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2018
This paper has two objectives. First it provides a correlation between internal and external barriers to energy efficiency and consumer behaviour related to two domains. It evaluates behaviour related to energy curtailment, which represents routine, repetitive effort to decrease consumption on a...
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Households' risk perceptions, overplacement, and financial literacy
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Fessler, Pirmin; Silgoner, Maria … - 2024
Household financial resilience is related to the availability of financial resources but also to the ability to … risks, which could affect the future financial situation of their own household (treatment) or of a household with similar … asked for their own household compared to a similar household - confirming overplacement bias in the context of financial …
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Assessing the energy-efficiency gap
Gererden, Todd D.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2015
Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513986
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An assessment of the energy-efficiency gap and its implications for climate change policy
Gerarden, Todd D.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N.; … - 2015
Improving end-use energy efficiency-that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy-is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea that...
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The linkages between energy efficiency and security of energy supply in Europe
Bigano, Andrea; Ortiz, Ramon Arigoni; Markandya, Anil; … - 2010
It can be argued that one way to reduce the dependence from external energy sources, is simply to reduce the demand for energy. Energy savings may thus be considered a policy priority when concerns for energy security are particularly strong. Drawing on an original econometric approach, we check...
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Efficiency and distributional impacts of tradable white certificates compared to taxes, subsidies and regulations
Quirion, Philippe; Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan - 2008
Tradable White Certificates (TWC) schemes, also labelled Energy-Efficiency Certificates schemes, were recently implemented in Great Britain, Italy and France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or to buy so-called "white certificates" from other...
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Energy efficiency policy with price-quality discrimination
Nauleau, Marie-Laure; Giraudet, Louis-Gaëtan; Quirion, … - 2015
We compare a range of energy efficiency policies in a durable good market subject to both energy-use externalities and price-quality discrimination by a monopolist. We find that the social optimum can be achieved with differentiated subsidies. With ad valorem subsidies, the subsidization of the...
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Combining climate and energy policies : synergies or antagonism? ; modeling interactions with energy efficiency instruments
Lecuyer, Oskar; Bibas, Ruben - 2011
In addition to the already present Climate and Energy package, the European Union (EU) plans to include a binding target to reduce energy consumption. We analyze the rationales the EU invokes to justify such an overlapping and develop a minimal common framework to study interactions arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419715
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Programs, prices and policies towards energy conservation and environmental quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...
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Exploring the potential for energy efficiency in Turkey
Tagliapietra, Simone - 2016
Energy efficiency is one of the key crossroads between energy, climate and economic issues. In fact, it represents one of the most cost effective ways to enhance security of energy supply, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and to enhance economic competitiveness at one fell swoop. This...
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