Reducing energy demand and increasing energy efficiency are seen as major elements of the ongoing transformation of energy systems in multiple national and international programs like the EU 20-20-20 targets. Despite the predominately socio-economic nature of energy demand such interdisciplinary...

This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

This paper deals with integrating technology as well as lifestyles as driving forces of energy demand into a model of total private consumption. Private consumption is determined by economic variables like income and prices as well as these other factors. Technology is represented by variables...

Lange hat sich die ökonomische Literatur auf die negativen Umweltauswirkungen von Produktionsprozessen konzentriert. Im Gegensatz dazu steht die Untersuchung der klimarelevanten Energienachfrage der privaten Haushalte im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung. Um der Vielschichtigkeit der...

Die Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz von Produkten und Dienstleistungen wird allgemein als effektive Strategie angesehen, um den heutigen Energieverbrauch zu reduzieren und energie- und klimapolitische Ziele zu erreichen. Die tatsächliche Reduktion des Energieverbrauches kann jedoch aufgrund...

Lífskjör á Íslandi eru góð, með þeim bestu meðal OECD-ríkja, og ójöfnuður lítill í alþjóðlegum samanburði. Fátækt mælist einnig lítil í slíkum samanburði. Hagkerfið hefur náð sér eftir áfallið árið 2008 og helstu hagstærðir hafa aldrei verið jafn hagstæðar...

This work builds upon some long-term secular regularities concerning the relation between consumption of energy, technological progress and economic growth and reassesses the old question raised around forty years ago in the limits to growth discussion (Meadows et al. [1972]), namely are the...

This paper examines the long-run relationship between energy consumption and real GDP, including energy prices, for 25 OECD countries from 1981 to 2007. The distinction between common factors and idiosyncratic components using principal component analysis allows to distinguish between...