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Long Run Demand for Energy Services: the Role of Economic and Technological Development
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)This paper investigates how the demand for energy services has changed since the Industrial Revolution. It presents evidence on the income and price elasticities of demand for domestic heating, passenger transport and ... -
Understanding Public Support for Externality-Correcting Taxes and Subsidies: A Lab Experiment
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)The potential of taxation to correcting environmental externalities has been long recognized among economists. Yet, this welfare-enhancing policy commonly faces strong opposition by citizens. Conversely, externality-correcting ... -
Regional IAM: analysis of risk-adjusted costs and benefits of climate policies
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)Across the full range of publications in the field of economics of climate change there is perhaps only one firm agreement: both costs and benefits of climate policy are highly uncertain. In an ideal world one would wait ... -
Economic Efficiency, Environmental Effectiveness and Political Feasibility of Energy Efficiency Rebates: The Case of the Spanish Energy Efficiency 'Renove' Plan
Galarraga, Ibon; Abadie, Luis María; Ansuategui Cobo, José Alberto
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-02-02)
Energy labels are used to promote the purchase of efficient appliances. Many countries in Europe use subsidies (namely energy efficiency rebates) to support these purchases as it is the case of Spain. A figure ranging from ...