How much information disclosure of building energy performance is necessary?

Energy Policy

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 263-272

  Hsu, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Auditing; Benchmarking; Building energy performance; Disclosure laws

Indexed keywords

AUDITING; BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; BUILDING ENERGY USE; DISCLOSURE LAWS; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; MULTILEVEL REGRESSION MODELING; SUBSTANTIAL VARIATIONS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); BENCHMARKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INVESTMENTS; MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BUILDINGS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENCHMARKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MARKET; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PANEL DATA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889599356     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.08.094     Document Type: Article

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