Risk aversion and willingness to pay for energy efficient systems in rental apartments

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3078-3088

  Farsi, Mehdi ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Energy efficiency; Risk aversion

Indexed keywords

CHOICE EXPERIMENT; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY EFFICIENT SYSTEMS; ENERGY SAVING; NEUTRALITY HYPOTHESIS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED RISK; RANDOM UTILITY MODEL; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; RISK ATTITUDE; RISK AVERSION; RISK PREMIUM; RISKY ASSETS; STATED PREFERENCES; SWITZERLAND; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; VENTILATION SYSTEMS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

APARTMENT HOUSES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; RISK PERCEPTION; VENTILATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMMODITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSULATION; MODEL; RENTAL SECTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; VENTILATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77951258595     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.01.048     Document Type: Article

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