The gap between actual carbon prices and those required to achieve ambitious climate
change mitigation could be closed by enhancing the public acceptability of carbon pricing …

This paper reviews the empirical literature that provides a correlation between the different
barriers to energy efficiency and consumer behavior related to two domains. It evaluates …

A common objection to “sin taxes”—corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be
overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks—is that they often fall …

The electrification of passenger road transport and household heating features prominently
in current and planned policy frameworks to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction …

This article discusses the use of green nudges—behavioral interventions aimed at reducing
negative externalities—as an environmental policy instrument. We present a new framework …

Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and
environmental damages associated with energy use, but it has long been observed that …

We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-
based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households …

Conventional economic policy focuses on 'economic'solutions (eg taxes, incentives,
regulation) to problems caused by market-level factors such as externalities, misaligned …

Many analysts of the energy industry have long believed that energy efficiency offers an
enormous “win-win” opportunity: through aggressive energy conservation policies, we can …

Imperfect information and inattention to energy costs are important potential motivations for
energy efficiency standards and subsidies. We evaluate these motivations in the lightbulb …