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Determinants of Households' Investment in Energy Efficiency and Renewables: Evidence from the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes

Ameli, Nadia; Brandt, Nicola - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Many studies on household energy efficiency investments suggest that a wide range of seemingly profitable investments are not taken up. This paper provides novel evidence on the main factors behind consumer choices using the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The...

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Read the label! Energy Star appliance label awareness and uptake among U.S. consumers

Murray, Anthony G.; Mills, Bradford F. - In: Energy Economics 33 (2011) 6, pp. 1103-1110

The Energy Star label program to promote the diffusion of energy efficient home appliances is arguably the most significant government effort to reduce U.S. residential energy consumption. Program effectiveness requires that consumers are aware of the labeling scheme and also change their...

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Zvi Griliches and the Economics of Technology Diffusion: Adoption of Innovations, Investment Lags, and Productivity Growth.

David, Paul A. - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2011

The first version of this paper was presented to the Conference on R&D, Education and Productivity, held in Memory of Zvi Griliches (1930 –1999) on 25-27th, August 2003 at Carr? des Sciences, Ministère de la Recherche, Paris, France. Gabriel Goddard furnished characteristically swift and...

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A framework to bridge the energy efficiency gap in shipping

Jafarzadeh, Sepideh; Utne, Ingrid Bouwer - In: Energy 69 (2014) C, pp. 603-612

efficiency in shipping. However, several barriers prevent the adoption of cost-effective energy saving measures. In this article … a framework is offered to overcome the barriers encountered in shipping. 12 participants from five ship owners in Norway …, two equipment suppliers, and a research institute have provided input to this study. The framework makes the barriers …

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The Silver Lining of Price Spikes: How electricity price spikes can help overcome the energy efficiency gap

Mauritzen, Johannes - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2013

Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so – the so-called energy efficiency gap. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and behavioral...

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Rural communities and wind farms: a contingent valuation investigation

Cerroni, Simone; Venzi, Lorenzo - In: RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA AGRARIA 2013/1 (2013) 1, pp. 23-40

Questo studio analizza, utilizzando il metodo della valutazione contingente, le preferenze delle comunità locali circa l’installazione di un parco eolico progettato in Provincia di Roma. Gli autori stimano la riduzione della bolletta elettrica che i cittadini sono disposti ad accettare come...

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Determinants and implications of employee electricity saving habit: An empirical study in China

Zhang, Yixiang; Wang, Zhaohua; Zhou, Guanghui - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research … - 2012

Employees constitute a large target group for energy conservation. Companies that want to reduce their energy consumption should promote their employees' participation. For successful energy saving in companies, employees should save energy on a continued basis, and develop the habit of energy...

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Determinants and policy implications for household electricity-saving behaviour: Evidence from Beijing China

Wang, Zhaohua; Zhang, Bin; Yin, Jianhua; Zhang, Yixiang - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research … - 2010

This research sets out to explore the possibilities for further saving in household electricity consumption through a study of the residents' willingness and behavioural characteristics in electricity saving, as applied within a Chinese context. Based on an extensive literature review, the...

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Antecedents of employee electricity saving behavior in organizations: An empirical study based on norm activation model

Zhang, Yixiang; Wang, Zhaohua; Zhou, Guanghui - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research … - 2011

China is one of the major energy-consuming countries, and is under great pressure to promote energy saving and reduce domestic energy consumption. Employees constitute an important target group for energy saving. However, only a few research efforts have been paid to study what drives employee...

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Size and determinants of shadow economies in the Baltic States

Putniņš, Tālis J.; Sauka, Arnis - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 11 (2011) 2, pp. 5-25

This study develops and estimates an index of the size of shadow economies in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and analyses the factors that influence participation in the shadow sector. The index can be used to track shadow economies through time or across sectors and therefore is a useful tool...

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