Landlords versus tenants: Information asymmetry and mismatched preferences for home energy efficiency

Energy Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-121

  Phillips, Yvonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Insulation; Random parameters logit

Indexed keywords

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES; HEATING APPLIANCES; HOME OWNERS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LARGE PARTS; MARKET PRICE; NEW ZEALAND; RANDOM PARAMETERS LOGIT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EXPERIMENTS; INSULATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMEOWNER; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; INSULATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84859778779     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.067     Document Type: Article

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