Heterogeneity in the Effect of Home Energy Audits: Theory and Evidence

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-418

  Frondel, Manuel ^a,b   Vance, Colin ^a,c  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy audit; Environmental policy; Mixed logit; Random coefficient models

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ENERGY AUDIT; ENERGY DEMANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HOUSEHOLD DATUM; MIXED LOGIT; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS; RANDOM PARAMETER MODEL;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HETEROGENEITY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; STATE ROLE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84878757779     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-013-9632-4     Document Type: Article

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