Les certificats d’économie d’énergie (CEE) encouragent la rénovation des bâtiments et le remplacement de vieux équipements en obligeant les fournisseurs gaz naturel, d’électricité fioul à réduire leurs livraisons. L’analyse microéconomique permet relier marché au travaux d’économies celui l’éner...

This paper studies the relationship between temperature and productivity across space and time. First, using six separate datasets—the annual Current Population Survey (CPS, 1963-2015), the monthly CPS (1994-2014), the Census (1900-2015), the Quarterly Census of Employment andWages (QCEW, 1990-2014), the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD, 1997-2014), and the County Business Pattern...

Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In this model, the elasticity of marginal utility simultaneously reflects preferences for intertemporal sub...

Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze Bayesian confidence sets for quantifying uncertainty in the determination of willingness to pay for carbon dioxide abatement. We use two empirical case studies: household decisions of energy-efficient heatin...

The assumption of the stability of preferences is a fundamental one in the theory of the consumer. Many papers within the stated preferences literature have tested this assumption, and have found mixed results. Individuals may become more sure of their preferences as they repeat a valuation task or purchase decision; they may also learn more about prices and quantities of substitutes or complem...

Does temperature affect real economic activity? Using the annual Current Population Survey between 1963 and 2015, we show that there is no association between temperature and earnings, hours, or output after controlling for time-invariant spatial heterogeneity and timevarying demographic factors. These results are robust to five separate sources of micro-data, different sampling horizons, funct...

Measurements of the electron temperature, Te , and density, ne , during the energy quench of a major disruption showed that the onset of Te erosion in the neighborhood of the m/n52/1 O point at the low field side ~LFS! accelerates the well-known m/n51/1 erosion of the core temperature. During this phase Te(r) is only partially flat in the region between the q52 and the q51 surfaces and ne(r) de...

Stated choice models based on the random utility framework are becoming increasingly popular in the applied economics literature. The need to account for respondents’ preference heterogeneity in such models has motivated researchers in agricultural, environmental, health and transport economics to apply random parameter logit and latent class models. In most of the published literature these mo...