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Measurement of Energy Efficiency Based on Economic Foundations
Filippini, Massimo - 2015
Energy efficiency policy is seen as a very important activity by almost all policy makers. In practical energy policy analysis, the typical indicator used as a proxy for energy efficiency is energy intensity. However, this simple indicator is not necessarily an accurate measure given changes in...
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Mismeasuring Electricity Market Power
Brennan, Tim - 2004
By studying average variable costs, researchers examining the California energy crisis were sure to find examples of market power - even if that power may not have existed. By studying average variable costs, researchers examining the California energy crisis were sure to find examples of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073302
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Measuring fuel poverty : general considerations and application to German household data
Heindl, Peter - 2014
Fuel poverty measurement consists of two independent parts: firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line …, and secondly, techniques to measure fuel poverty. This paper reviews options for the definition of fuel poverty lines and … techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would result from different fuel …
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Dynamic properties of energy affordability measures
Heindl, Peter; Schüßler, Rudolf - 2015
on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive … relative to income or an absolute or relative income poverty line fare well from a dynamic perspective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498577
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Dynamic properties of energy affordability measures
Heindl, Peter; Schüßler, Rudolf - 2015
on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive … relative to income or an absolute or relative income poverty line fare well from a dynamic perspective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505110
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Measuring fuel poverty : general considerations and application to German household data
Heindl, Peter - 2013
Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil … fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty … measurement consists of two largely independent parts, firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777613
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New measurement approaches to identifying spatial concentrations of poor and low-income households in German city regions
Fina, Stefan; Schmitz, Julian; Weck, Sabine; … - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 82 (2024) 1, pp. 40-54
The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city … the spatial analysis of poverty concentrations in Germany. The methods are based on three popular conceptualizations of … poverty: material poverty, relative poverty, and the concept of neighbourhood deprivation. The main novelty presented in this …
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The reliability of small area estimation prediction methods to track poverty
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Lanjouw, Peter; Luoto, Jill; … - 2010
Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However …, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption … tested directly. This study analyses the performance of poverty prediction models based on small area estimation (SAE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663055
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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.
household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334363
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Keep it real : measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
found. Finally, I argue that poverty estimation based on national account consumption means and estimates of inequality from … decline of poverty over time, but the magnitude of the adjustment is country- and year-specific. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411136