Based on randomized information treatments that were embedded in a large online survey among more than 6,000 single-home owners from Germany, we investigate the malleability of attitudes towards water conservation and a variety of conservation policies. While the empirical results indicate that,...

The success of climate policies depends crucially on the dynamics of public support. Using unique longitudinal data from three surveys conducted between 2019 and 2022, we study the variations of public support for carbon pricing in Germany. The period includes two relevant events: the...

Die jüngste Verschärfung der nationalen Klimaschutzziele erfordert die Ergreifung zusätzlicher umweltund klimapolitischer Maßnahmen sowie eventuelle Nachbesserungen bei den bestehenden Maßnahmen, etwa einen beschleunigten Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Dies führt unweigerlich zu...

Zum Stromverbrauch der in privaten Haushalten verbreiteten Elektrogeräte gibt es wenig empirische Evidenz. Um diese Lücke zu schließen, wird im folgenden Beitrag ein ökonometrisches Modell geschätzt, das auf Basis der Daten einer detaillierten Erhebung zum Stromverbrauch und zur...

Seit dem Jahr 2000 haben sich die Strompreise für private Haushalte mehr als verdoppelt. Von steigenden Stromkosten sind Millionen von armutsgefährdeten Haushalten besonders betroffen, weil diese Kosten regressive Wirkungen haben: Arme Haushalte haben einen größeren Anteil ihres Einkommens...

To provide the basis for evaluating the effectiveness of price policies, this paper contributes to the literature by estimating the heterogeneity in the response of residential electricity demand to price increases across household types. Drawing on household panel data from the German...

Drawing on the most recent wave of the German Residential Energy Survey (GRECS), this paper estimates the contribution of individual appliances to household electricity consumption. Moving beyond the standard focus of estimating mean effects, we combine the conditional demand approach with...

Given the rapid expansion of wind power capacities in Germany, this paper estimates the effects of wind turbines on house prices using real estate price data from Germany's leading online broker. Employing a hedonic price model whose specification is informed by machine learning techniques, our...

Based on a survey among more than 5,000 German households and a single-binary choice experiment in which we randomly split the respondents into two groups, this paper elicits both households' willingness to pay (WTP) for power supply security and their willingness to accept (WTA) compensations...