The effect of life-cycle cost disclosure on consumer behavior: Evidence from a field experiment with cooling appliances

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-315

  Deutsch, Matthias ^a  

^a PROGNOS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Energy efficiency; Evaluation; Household appliances; Labeling; Market transformation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE; CONSUMER BEHAVIORS; CONTROL GROUPS; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES; INTERNET USERS; IS COSTS; LIFECYCLE COSTS; MARKET TRANSFORMATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCT PRICE; SPECIFIC ENERGY; TREATMENT GROUP; VISUAL STIMULUS;

COMMERCE; COOLING; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; OCEAN STRUCTURES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERNET; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

EID: 77957243026     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-010-9076-4     Document Type: Article

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