Rebound effect (conservation)

About: Rebound effect (conservation) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25741 citations.

The Influential Mechanism of Rebound Effect within Chinese Energy Efficiency

Abstract: This paper focuses on Chinese energy efficiency and all the other relative factors which will cause the change of energy usage based on the fact that Chinese government is quite different with the other countries' governments in energy policies. The causal-loop diagram which systematic dynamic method provided gives us a tool to describe those effects more specifically and explain how the rebound effect of energy efficiency occur. Based on that, we clarify the theoretical conditions under which such effects would occur and explores their likely significance both in the fields of macroeconomics and microeconomics. Then, we establish another causal-loop diagram to describe all the effect routes that occur between energy efficiency and government, enterprises, and residents, and give out the influence mechanism of the rebound effect of energy efficiency.

Thought suppression in the context of the normative window model of prejudice

Abstract: The following study presents a novel investigation of the moderating role of social norms in the suppression of stereotype-related thoughts and the subsequent rebound effect, hypothesizing that suppressing stereotyping thoughts regarding certain social groups leads to a greater rebound effect than suppressing stereotyping thoughts about other social groups. This experiment showed no evidence that social norms prescribing the way one should think about prejudice against a certain social group moderates the rebound effect. Participants in the suppression condition experienced the rebound effect, however the rebound effect was not significantly different across target social groups. While my results replicate past research in demonstrating the rebound effect across conditions, the results did not support my hypothesis as I did not find a significant difference in ease of thought suppression between social groups.

Light vehicle fuel efficiency standards and the rebound effect

Abstract: Australia is planning to take action to tackle climate change via improvements in light vehicle fuel efficiency. The proposed light vehicle emissions standards are expected to reduce petroleum use as well as greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles, sports utility vehicles and light commercial vehicles. Consumers of light vehicles, including private households and firms, will respond to this policy in a way that maximise their utility based on economic theory. On one hand, these economic agents will use less petrol, through directly purchasing more efficient new cars to react to the mandatory standard. On the other hand, the more efficient vehicle will provide an incentive for the consumers to use it more as the effective cost of driving decreases. Understanding these economic and behavioural responses to the policy is crucial for policymakers. This thesis makes three contributions to understanding the policy and the associated rebound effect, focusing on the Australian proposed light vehicle emissions standards.First, this thesis contributes to theoretical analyses of the household and firm responses to a fuel efficiency improvement by investigating the utility maximisation problem and the cost minimisation problem of the economic agents in response to fuel efficiency changes. Using microeconomic theory, specifically the consumer and production theory, the theoretical study shows that the magnitude of the rebound effect is determined by different elasticities for the household and the firm, which also changes as the policy standards become more stringent.Second, this thesis makes an innovative contribution that enriches the modelling of the vehicle fuel efficiency changes over time. This methodological advance integrates time series analysis with detailed engineering fleet model to provide credible forecast for fuel efficiency changes under business-as-usual and policy scenarios. The time series approach captures the compositional changes of vehicles, or the taste shifts over vehicle types, and gives a stock change forecast to the model year 2025. The engineering fleet model takes into account the new vehicle sales, the vehicle stock turnover, distance travelled, and fuel consumption to make the best prediction on the fleet level fuel efficiency. The results from this study are crucially important for the simulations in the next study.Third, the thesis contributes to the empirical studies of the rebound effect by simulating the BAU and policy scenarios in a computable general equilibrium framework. The direct rebound effect of the Australian proposed light vehicle fuel efficiency standards are shown to range between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, measured by petroleum use. Each of these policy scenarios is shown to have a much larger economy-wide rebound effect, reaching up to 50 per cent measured by life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions. Although the stringent fuel efficiency standard generates more direct rebound effects measured in percentage than the lenient and medium standards, the stringent policy produces the most reduction in carbon emissions measured in physical units overall.This thesis concludes by making policy recommendations based on the studies carried out in the previous chapters. It integrates the results from each of the individual analyses to provide a comprehensive understanding of the Australian proposed light vehicle fuel efficiency standards. The theoretical analysis of the behaviour of the household and the firm, together with the CGE simulations which use results from a detailed engineering fleet model, captures the economy-wide economic and environmental impacts of the policy that are essential for policymakers to evaluate each policy option.n

Determinants of Commuter Trends and Implications for Indirect Rebound Effects: A Case Study of Germany’s Largest Federal State of NRW, 1994–2013

Abstract: Home-work commuting distances are increasing in Europe. Many studies see this as due to geographical mismatches between workplaces and homes, or worker skills and job locations, and often recommend policies to close geographical gaps between jobs and suitable workers. A different approach sees commuting as essential in a modern economy, as it facilitates information flow across complex economic networks in geographically dispersed regions. In this ‘city-network’ view, many workers make deliberate choices to commute and many employers encourage this. This paper explores these viewpoints in a case study of increasing commuting in Germany’s most populous state, North-Rhine-Westphalia, in 1994-2013, using Federal data on workers’ home and work locations. It finds an average annual increase in commuter numbers of 1.35%, from 43% to 55% of the workforce. Some of this increase can be explained by worker skills and job location mismatches, but steady increases in various commuting metrics lead to the suggestion that commuting is also something people choose to do. This supports the city-network hypothesis, and also implies a rebound effect of increased travel due to increased economy-wide energy efficiency. Qualitative and quantitative studies are needed to identify the actual reasons people commute, and to more accurately estimate rebound effects.

Jevons Paradoksu: Enerji Etkinliği ve Rebound Etkisi Üzerine Ekonometrik Bir Analiz

Abstract: In this study, the effects of energy efficiency, rebound effect, on energy production, consumption, saving, import as well as inflation and current account deficit are examined using time series analysis in the period of 1967-2015 in Turkish economy. Firstly, in order to determine the stationary level of the variables ADF and PP unit root tests are used and the results show that all of the variables considered within the model are stationary at the first difference level. Second, the finding of Johansen-Juselius cointegration analyze reveals the existence of long-run relationships among variables, and Granger causality analysis reflects at least the validity of one-way causal links among variables. The findings of the VEC analysis point out that the Jevons Paradox or rebound effect is valid in the Turkish economy, which means that energy consumption rises as energy efficiency and production increases. In addition, the findings show that depending on increasing energy consumption energy import level rises and therefore current account deficit and inflation begin to deteriorate, also.