Energy use by apartment tenants when landlords pay for utilities

Levinson, Arik; Niemann, Scott

doi:10.1016/s0928-7655(03)00047-2

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“…This is an indication of household ecofriendly behavior that has been commonly employed by the literature (see e.g. Levinson and Niemann, 2004;Maruejolds et al, 2011;and Gillingham et al, 2012). Moreover, as Figure 1 indicates, space heating is the…”

Section: Daily Energy-saving Habitsmentioning

confidence: 75%

Pro-environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain

Ramos

Labandeira

Löschel

2015

Environ Resource Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in Pro-Environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in SpainAna Ramos*, Xavier Labandeira and Andreas Löschel AbstractThe residential building sector is a major driver of current and future energy consumption and associated emissions, which can be potentially mitigated through significant energy-efficiency (EE) improvements in both emerging and developed countries. Yet, there are several persistent barriers that hinder the attainment of EE improvements in this area. Using data from a 2008 national representative survey of Spanish households, this paper is interested in the determinants of EE-related decisions. In particular, a discrete-choice model empirically analyzes whether proenvironmental households are more likely to invest in EE and to adopt daily energysaving habits. We show that households with eco-friendly behaviors are more likely to investment in well-differentiated EE measures as well as to steer daily habits towards energy savings. However, no effects are found for households with environmental attitudes based on stated willingness to pay to protect the environment. In addition to this, households belonging to higher income groups and education levels are more likely to invest in EE but not to adopt energy-saving habits; while households with older members are less likely to invest in EE and show fewer eco-friendly habits.

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Section: Daily Energy-saving Habitsmentioning

confidence: 75%

Pro-environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain

Ramos

Labandeira

Löschel

2015

Environ Resource Econ

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“…These dwellings have been registered by the National Association of Realtors (NVM), and information is provided on the address and a wide array of quality characteristics for each dwelling. We focus on homeowners, as we lack critical information on rental units, such as dwelling characteristics, and the type of rental contract -net or grosswhich may have a substantial influence on energy consumption (as emphasized by Levinson and Niemann, 2004).…”

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Residential energy use and conservation: Economics and demographics

Brounen

Kok

Quigley

2012

European Economic Review

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a b s t r a c tEnergy consumption in the residential sector offers an important opportunity for conserving resources. However, much of the current debate regarding energy efficiency in the housing market focuses on the physical and technical determinants of energy consumption, neglecting the role of the economic behavior of resident households. In this paper, we analyze the extent to which the use of gas and electricity is determined by the technical specifications of the dwelling as compared to the demographic characteristics of the residents. Our analysis is based on a sample of more than 300,000 Dutch homes and their occupants. The results indicate that residential gas consumption is determined principally by structural dwelling characteristics, such as the vintage, building type, and characteristics of the dwelling, while electricity consumption varies more directly with household composition, in particular income and family composition. Combining these results with projections on future economic and demographic trends, we find that, even absent price increases for residential energy, the aging of the population and their increasing wealth will roughly offset improvements in the energy efficiency of the building stock resulting from policy interventions and natural revitalization.

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“…This consequence from information asymmetries between owners and renters is well established [9,13]. This can be particularly important if the green signaling provided by e discontinuously occurs when some threshold of e has been passed -(i.e.…”

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“…Due to asymmetric information between building owners and prospective tenants or buyers, owners intending to lease or sell better-performing buildings struggle to recoup their investments when renters or buyers are uninformed or cannot verify the improvements [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. With information asymmetry between owners and renters, LEED certification can signal renters about the quality or energy efficiency of the building [13].…”

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Performance or Marketing Benefits? The Case of LEED Certification

Matisoff

Noonan

Mazzolini

2014

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Green building adoption is driven by both performance-based benefits and marketing based benefits. Performance based benefits are those that improve performance or lower operating costs of the building or of building users. Marketing benefits stem from the consumer response to green certification. This study illustrates the relative importance of the marketing based benefits that accrue to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) buildings due to green signaling mechanisms, specifically related to the certification itself are identified. Of course, all participants in the LEED certification scheme seek marketing benefits. But even among LEED participants, the interest in green signaling is pronounced. The green signaling mechanism that occurs at the certification thresholds shifts building patterns from just below to just above the threshold level, and motivates builders to cluster buildings just above each threshold. Results are consistent across subsamples, though non-profit organizations appear to build greener buildings and engage in more green signaling than for-profit entities. Using nonparametric regression discontinuity, signaling across different building types is observed. Marketing benefits due to LEED certification drives organizations to build "greener" buildings by upgrading buildings at the thresholds to reach certification levels.3

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Energy use by apartment tenants when landlords pay for utilities

Cited by 168 publications

References 11 publications

Pro-environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain

Pro-environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain

Residential energy use and conservation: Economics and demographics

Performance or Marketing Benefits? The Case of LEED Certification

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