Abstract:Qatar's per capita electricity consumption is one of the highest in the world, mainly due to the availability of heavily subsidized electricity. The residential sector alone accounts for 60% of produced electricity. The effectiveness of imposing regulatory measures that aim to reduce consumption, such as carbon pricing and rebates, depends on the design of the introduced policy, region dynamics, and population characteristics. Using principal-agent theory, this study addresses the agency problem between the go… Show more
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