Ziel dieser Studie ist die Schätzung des Energieverbrauchs privater Haushalte in Deutschland für die Jahre 2011 bis 2013 mittels einer Stichprobenerhebung, die mittlerweile auf einem aus rund 15 000 Haushalten bestehenden repräsentativen Panel des forsa-Instituts basiert. Die Haushalte werden...

Die seit Jahren niedrigen Zertifikatspreise werden häufig als Begründung dafür angeführt, dass der EU-Emissionshandel reformiert werden muss. Politisch favorisiert wird aktuell die so genannte Marktstabilitätsreserve: ein regelbasierter Mechanismus, nach dem die Menge an...

Recent research indicates that pro-environmental behavior may be driven by concerns about one’s moral identity. Using identification with the environmentalist movement Fridays for Future, this paper develops and empirically tests a straightforward model of self-signaling. We assume that...

The production of electricity on the basis of renewable energy technologies is a classic example of an impure public good. It is often discriminatively financed by industrial and household consumers, such as in Germany, where the energy-intensive sector benefits from far-reaching exemptions,...

Energy labels have been introduced in many countries to increase consumers' attention to energy use in purchase decisions of durables. In a discrete-choice experiment among about 5,000 households, we implement randomized information treatments to explore how energy labels influence purchasing...

Energy labels have been introduced in many countries to make consumers more attentive to energy use in purchase decisions of durables. Despite their wide application, however, little is known about the effects of specific label designs. In this paper, we explore how energy labels can help to...

Economic theory, as well as empirical research, suggest that elderly people prefer public spending on policies yielding short-term benefits. This might be bad news for policies aimed at combating climate change: while the unavoidable costs of these policies arise today, the expected benefits...

Energy labels have been introduced in many countries to increase consumers' attention to energy use in purchase decisions of durables. In a discrete-choice experiment among about 5,000 households, we implement randomized information treatments to explore the effects of various kinds of energy...

Energy labels have been introduced in many countries to increase consumers’ attention to energy use in purchase decisions of durables. In a discrete-choice experiment among about 5,000 households, we implement randomized information treatments to explore how energy labels influence purchasing...