Energy Conservation More Effective With Rebound Policy

Energy Conservation More Effective With Rebound Policy

This article sketches the problem of indirect energy use effects, also known as rebound, of energy conservation. There is widespread support for energy conservation, especially when it is voluntary, as this seems a cheap way to realize environmental and energy-climate goals. However, this overlooks the phenomenon of rebound. The topic of energy rebound has mainly attracted attention from energy...

Industrial energy conservation, rebound effects and public policy

Direct Household Rebound Effect for Electricity Consumption in the U.S.: Implications for Energy Conservation Policy

The direct rebound effect is a concept that describes the increase in consumer demand for energy services resulting from improvements in energy efficiency. This paper uses household electricity consumption data in the United States during the period 2006-2010 to generate an estimation of the rebound effect indirectly through price elasticities. It then analyzes the impact of state level applian...

Moving Rio forward and avoiding 10 more years with little evidence for effective conservation policy.

BRENDAN FISHER,∗†‡‡ ANDREW BALMFORD,‡ PAUL J. FERRARO,§ LOUISE GLEW,∗ MICHAEL MASCIA,∗ ROBIN NAIDOO,∗ AND TAYLOR H. RICKETTS∗∗ ∗Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund-US, Washington, DC 20037, U.S.A. †Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A. ‡Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge,...

Has Monetary Policy Become More Effective?∗

Recent research provides evidence of important changes in the U.S. economic environment over the last 40 years. This appears to be associated with an alteration of the monetary transmission mechanism. In this paper we investigate the implications for the evolution of monetary policy effectiveness. Using an identiÞed VAR over the preand post-1980 periods we Þrst provide evidence of a reduction i...