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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19598| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Nudging the poor and the rich : a field study on the distributional effects of green electricity defaults |
| Authors: | Ghesla, Claus Grieder, Manuel Schubert, Renate |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616 10.21256/zhaw-19598 |
| Published in: | Energy Economics |
| Volume(Issue): | 2020 |
| Issue: | 86 |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0140-9883 1873-6181 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Choice default; Green electricity; Nudging; Public policy |
| Subject (DDC): | 333.79: Energy |
| Abstract: | Choice defaults are an increasingly popular public policy tool. Yet there is little knowledge of the distributional consequences of such nudges for different groups in society. We report results from an elicitation study in the residential electricity market in Switzerland in which we contrast consumers' actual contract choices under an existing default regime with the same consumers' active choices in a survey presenting the same choice-set without any default. We find that the default is successful at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but it leads poorer households to pay more for their electricity consumption than they would want to, while leaving a significant willingness to pay for green electricity by richer households untapped. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/19598 |
| Fulltext version: | Accepted version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Restricted until: | 2022-03-01 |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Ghesla, C., Grieder, M., & Schubert, R. (2020). Nudging the poor and the rich : a field study on the distributional effects of green electricity defaults. Energy Economics, 2020(86). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616
Ghesla, C., Grieder, M. and Schubert, R. (2020) ‘Nudging the poor and the rich : a field study on the distributional effects of green electricity defaults’, Energy Economics, 2020(86). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616.
C. Ghesla, M. Grieder, and R. Schubert, “Nudging the poor and the rich : a field study on the distributional effects of green electricity defaults,” Energy Economics, vol. 2020, no. 86, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616.
GHESLA, Claus, Manuel GRIEDER und Renate SCHUBERT, 2020. Nudging the poor and the rich : a field study on the distributional effects of green electricity defaults. Energy Economics. 2020. Bd. 2020, Nr. 86. DOI 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616
Ghesla, Claus, Manuel Grieder, and Renate Schubert. 2020. “Nudging the Poor and the Rich : A Field Study on the Distributional Effects of Green Electricity Defaults.” Energy Economics 2020 (86). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616.
Ghesla, Claus, et al. “Nudging the Poor and the Rich : A Field Study on the Distributional Effects of Green Electricity Defaults.” Energy Economics, vol. 2020, no. 86, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104616.
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