Life-cycle cost disclosure and consumer behavior: Expectations in the energy policy community versus experimental evidence

Energy Efficiency Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-85

  Deutsch, Matthias ^a  

^a PROGNOS AG   (Germany)

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