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Theoretical and empirical evaluation of a competitive energy rebate program

Ta, Chi L. - 2021

win rebates can effectively encourage further conservation among those who can meet the threshold reduction. The theory …

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Social norms and energy conservation beyond the US

Andor, Mark Andreas; Gerster, Andreas; Peters, Jörg; … - 2017

The seminal studies by Allcott and Mullainathan (2010), Allcott (2011), and Allcott and Rogers (2014) suggest that social comparison-based home energy reports (HER) are a cost-effective non-price intervention to stimulate energy conservation. The present paper demonstrates the context-dependency...

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Household energy choices : New empirical evidence and policy implications for sustainable behaviour

Hassett, Katherine - 2024

This paper offers insights on the factors that determine household choices related to energy use, based on data from the third OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC). The analysis profiles households according to patterns in reported energy use and...

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Information campaigns for residential energy conservation

Andor, Mark Andreas; Gerster, Andreas; Peters, Jörg - 2020

This paper evaluates an intervention that randomized information letters about energy efficient investments and behaviors among 120,000 customers of two utilities in Germany. We find that conservation effects differ considerably between both utilities, ranging from a precisely estimated zero...

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Limited attention in the housing market : threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments

Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2020

We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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