Stated preferences of Finnish private homeowners for residential heating systems: A discrete choice experiment

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-32

  Rouvinen, S ^a   Matero, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Choice modeling; Market share simulation; Mixed logit; Space heating; Wood pellet market

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL OPERATING COSTS; CHOICE MODEL; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; MARKET SHARE; MIXED LOGIT; PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY; SIMULATION OF MARKETS; WOOD PELLET;

BOILERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMERCE; COMPETITION; EXPERIMENTS; HEATING EQUIPMENT; HOUSING; PELLETIZING; SPACE HEATING; SURVEYS; WOOD;

HEATING;

CARBON EMISSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEATING; HETEROGENEITY; HOMEOWNER; MARKET SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION;

BOILERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPETITION; FINLAND; HEATING; HOUSES; OPERATING COSTS; PELLETS; WOOD;

FINLAND;

EID: 84887019456     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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