What makes people seal the green power deal? - Customer segmentation based on choice experiment in Germany

Ecological Economics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 206-215

  Tabi, Andrea ^a   Hille, Stefanie Lena ^a   Wüstenhagen, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Choice based conjoint analysis; Green electricity; Latent class analysis; Market segmentation

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NICHE; POLICY MAKING; PRICE DYNAMICS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEGMENTATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GERMANY;

EID: 84929996983     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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