This paper studies the role of imperfect information and attentional biases in the context of energy efficiency … variation in information provision to quantify how tenants trade-off energy efficiency and rent increases. A set of quantile … regressions suggests that information on expected energy bills reduction induces around 30% of tenants to equate financial savings …

Korrektur marktlicher Rahmenbedingungen. -- Energieeffizienz ; Energieeffizienzlücke ; Marktversagen ; umweltpolitische …Long-term environment goals consist of a reduction of primary energy consumption of 20% by 2020 as well as of 50% by … energy efficiency. For this reason, an extensive review of actual research is being undertaken, followed by an elaboration on …

Tradable White Certificates (TWC) schemes, also labelled Energy-Efficiency Certificates schemes, were recently … implemented in Great Britain, Italy and France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or … model to compare TWC schemes to other policy instruments for energy efficiency, i.e., energy taxes, subsidies on energy …

Tradable White Certificates (TWC) schemes, also labelled Energy-Efficiency Certificates schemes, were recently … implemented in Great Britain, Italy and France. Energy suppliers have to fund a given quantity of energy efficiency measures, or … model to compare TWC schemes to other policy instruments for energy efficiency, i.e., energy taxes, subsidies on energy …

2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical … find a positive mark-up of 49%, in our data. This suggests that, in practice, the government is concerned with energy …

This paper shows that firms respond strategically to ENERGY STAR, a voluntary certification program for energy …-efficient products. Firms offer products that bunch at the certification requirement, differentiate certified products in energy and non-energy … impact the adoption of energy-efficient appliances. …

energy conservation. However, most threshold-based rebates are structured such that they do not encourage reduction beyond …

Effective attention to information may play a prominent role in consumer choice for energy-intensive services and it … why the timing of utility bills leads to salience bias in heat energy consumption. In Germany, the 12-month billing period … to identify the salience effect of costs on energy consumption and the underlying heterogeneity in the average treatment …

We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy … efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product … policy instruments. Surprisingly, we find that an industry-friendly government levies an energy tax to supplement a lax …

We consider a two-periods-model of differentiated duopoly. Firms produce an en-ergy consuming household durable … differentiated by its energy efficiency. Consumers differ by the weight they apply to their future energy costs when deciding which … these effects are re-versed. Calculated over both periods, total energy consumption does not change. Although there is no …