Conservation: From voluntary restraint to a voluntary price premium

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-215

  Kotchen, Matthew J ^a,b   Moore, Michael R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation behavior; Electricity demand; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CONSERVATION BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICITY DEMAND; RENEWABLE ENERGY;

OPERATING COSTS;

CONSERVATION; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 43849104938     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9148-x     Document Type: Article

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