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Environmental, Redistributive and Revenue Effects of Policies Promoting Fuel Efficient and Electric Vehicles
Bigler, Patrick; Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2022
We analyze welfare implications of policies promoting environmentally friendly vehicles employing rich Swiss micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266610
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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - 2009
Motorised individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299474
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Do environmental benefits matter? A choice experiment among house owners in Germany
Achtnicht, Martin - 2010
Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302995
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Are blackout days free of charge? Valuation of individual preferences for improved electricity services
Jimenez M., Raul - 2017
size. These results indicate substantial welfare losses derived from low-quality electricity services equivalent to over 35 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786432
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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions
Achtnicht, Martin - 2012
Motorized individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308488
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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2002
individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a …-estimated the welfare gains immediately following reunification. The prediction error was largest for the young, the poorly educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262741
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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India
Anand, P. B. - 2001
This paper examines consumer preferences for the attributes of alternative sources of water supply in Chennai, based on a household survey where respondents were given the description of a set of options. Their decision to choose one of the options is examined using discrete choice models....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279042
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Valuation of Health Inputs and Convenience in New Products
Nordström, Jonas - 2013
The prevalence of illnesses related to the modern diet and a more sedentary lifestyle has increased markedly over the last few decades. There is therefore a need for effective strategies to promote health and to reduce the prevalence of diet-related diseases. In this paper, we study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208636
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Estimating travellers' preferences for competition in commercial passenger rail transport
Paha, Johannes; Rompf, Dirk; Warnecke, Christiane - 2011
The current level of competition in European commercial passenger rail markets is low and empirical data on customer preferences in intramodal competition has hardly been available, yet. Our study raises the knowledge of competition in commercial passenger rail by exploring the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286431
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice: Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect … unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for … discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks. We first adapt the broad class of individual welfare measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582134