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Catching the rebound : economy-wide implications of an efficiency shock in the provision of transport services by households

Koesler, Simon - 2013

services by German households. In the process, we take into account that household behaviour may be influenced by habits, build … rebound effect. Our analysis shows that rebound has the potential to significantly reduce the expected energy savings of an … large parts of efficiency increases. Household habits have an initial detrimental effect on rebound. They limit the ability …

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"More bang for the buck"? : evidence on the effectiveness of an energy efficiency subsidy

Bartels, Lara; Werthschulte, Madeline - 2023

With the aim of limiting global warming, environmental subsidies are a popular public finance instrument to reduce carbon emissions. However, there is little evidence on why subsidies are effective in increasing demand for the goods subsidized. We use a framed field experiment to disentangle and...

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COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines : disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks

Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...

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How effective are energy-efficiency incentive programs? : evidence from Italian homeowners

Alberini, Anna; Bigano, Andrea - 2014

replacement when the savings on the energy bills are larger and experienced over a longer horizon, and when rebates are offered to …

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The moderating effect of fuel prices on the market value of fuel efficiency, driving intensity, and Co2 emissions

Klapper, Daniel; Pleshcheva, Vlada - 2019

In the current paper, we quantify the effect that fuel prices have on vehicle prices' responsiveness to fuel economy. We apply a hedonic price model to the German automobile market by using data on detailed technical specifications of high-sales vehicles of three sequential model years. In the...

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Moral Suasion and Economic Incentives : Field Experimental Evidence from Energy Demand

Ito, Koichiro - 2018

Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for economic activities. To investigate persistence of such interventions, we randomly assign households to moral suasion and dynamic pricing that stimulate energy conservation...

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Solar rebound : the unintended consequences of subsidies

Boccard, Nicolas; Gautier, Axel - 2019

Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....

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The elusive effects of residential energy efficiency improvements : evidence from Ukraine

Alberini, Anna; Khymych, Olha; Ščasný, Milan - 2019

Untapped improvements in energy efficiency in the residential sector may deliver large savings in energy use and the CO … over 700%. We combine the monthly meter readings with documentation about each household's heating-related energy …

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Economic sanctions, energy efficiency, and environmental impacts : evidence from Iranian industrial sub-sectors

Jabari, Leyla; Salem, Ali Asghar; Zamani, Omid; … - 2024

Improving energy efficiency is vital for curtailing energy consumption and can have substantial impacts on alleviating carbon emissions. This study investigates the impact of sanctions on Iran's energy efficiency across different industrial sub-sectors from 2015 to 2019. We compute a sanctions...

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Does Daylight Savings Time Save Energy? Evidence from Ontario

Rivers, Nicholas - 2016

Daylight Savings Time was adopted for the purposes of reducing energy consumption, but recent studies have cast some … doubt on whether it still serves this purpose effectively. This study estimates the effect of Daylight Savings Time on … occurs on a different day in each year. The results suggest that Daylight Savings Time reduces the demand for electricity by …

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