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Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey
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In this paper, a review of some of the relevant literature from the US offers definitions and identifies sources including direct, secondary, and economy-wide sources and concludes that the range of estimates for the size of the rebound effect is very low to moderate.About:
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2000-06-01. It has received 1867 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rebound effect (conservation) & Energy consumption.read more
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Pollution halo or pollution haven? A CGE appraisal for Iran
Mehdi Nejati,F. Taleghani +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess the environmental effects of FDI considering the pollution haven and halo hypotheses, and they find that if energy efficiency improvement reached more than 10%, pollution resulting from FDI became negative, and the technique and composition effects nullified the scale effect.
Prepared for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
TL;DR: The notion of asymptotic stability was introduced in this paper as a first step toward analyzing the effect of stochastic shocks, namely, a state is locally stable if, after the impact of a one-time, small stochastically shock, the process evolves back to its original state.
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Does Engineering Education Need to Engage More with the Economic and Social Aspects of Sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss what engineering educators can do to produce sustainability informed engineers who are better able to engage with the economic and social dimensions of sustainability, and suggest that the most important levers and challenges lie in the social and economic domains.
Debunking Weak Sustainable Consumption : Towards Strong Sustainable Consumption Governance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an acknowledgment of the authorship of the author's work and acknowledgements of the contributors' contributions................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Acknowledgements
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Toward a neoclassical theory of sustainable consumption: Eight golden age propositions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the question of whether neoclassical theory could instead provide keys to deeper understanding of sustainable consumption, and propose eight propositions that could help speed up the development of a robust, sustainable consumption theory.
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Economics and consumer behavior
Angus Deaton,John Muellbauer +1 more
TL;DR: Deaton and Muellbauer as mentioned in this paper introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour and used it in applied econometrics, including consumer index numbers, household characteristics, demand, and household welfare comparisons.
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Technology, Prices, and the Derived Demand for Energy
Ernst R. Berndt,David O. Wood +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an industrial demand for energy is essentially a derived demand: the firm's demand for the energy is an input, derived from demand for a firm's output, which is an output.
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Individual Discount Rates and the Purchase and Utilization of Energy-Using Durables
TL;DR: In this article, a model of individual behavior in the purchase and utilization of energy-using durables is presented, where the tradeoff between capital costs for more energy efficient appliances and operating costs for the appliances is emphasized.
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Economic Implications of Mandated Efficiency in Standards for Household Appliances
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the indiscriminate use of mandated standards will backfire, but a mix of selective standards and reliance on prices as a restraint can be effective.
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Qualitative Choice Analysis: Theory, Econometrics, and an Application to Automobile Demand
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a detailed study of automobile demand and use, presenting forecasts based on the powerful new techniques of qualitative choice analysis and standard regression techniques, which are combined to analyze situations that neither alone can accurately forecast.