Empirical evidence on households' awareness of electricity prices and potentially divergent demand responses to price changes conditional on price knowledge is scant. Using panel data originating from Germany’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (GRECS), we fill this void by employing an...

Empirical evidence on households' awareness of electricity prices and potentially divergent demand responses to price changes conditional on price knowledge is scant. Using panel data originating from Germany's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (GRECS), we fill this void by employing an...

Empirical evidence on the response of German households to electricity price changes is sparse. Using panel data originating from Germany's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (GRECS), we fill this void by employing an instrumental variable approach to cope with the endogeneity of the...

Recent research suggests that households increase their electricity consumption in the aftermath of installing photovoltaic (PV) panels, a behavioral change commonly referred to as the solar rebound. Drawing on panel data originating from the German Residential Energy Consumption Survey (GRECS),...

Recent research suggests that households would increase their electricity consumption in the aftermath of installing photovoltaics (PV) panels, a behavioral change commonly referred to as the solar rebound. Drawing on panel data originating from the German Residential Energy Consumption Survey...

Reducing household electricity consumption is of central relevance to climate policy given the share of 12.2% of the residential sector in greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing on data originating from the German Residential Energy Survey (GRECS), this paper estimates the contribution of individual...

Die deutsche Leasingwirtschaft fasste im Sommer 2010 Vertrauen in den Aufschwung. Die Geschäftslageurteile bewegen sich – zwei Jahre nach dem dramatischen Absturz – per saldo wieder leicht im positiven Bereich. Im August 2010 bewertete etwa jeder vierte Testteilnehmer seinen Geschäftsgang...

Das Leasing konnte 2011 mit dem dynamischen Wachstum der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Investitionsausgaben nicht nur Schritt halten, sondern sogar stärker expandieren, wie der neueste ifo Investitionstest bei den deutschen Leasinggesellschaften zeigt, der zusammen mit dem Bundesverband Deutscher...