Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence
intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for economic activities. To investigate persistence of such …

Almost all of the world's energy demand growth is projected to occur in low-and medium-
income countries (LMICs). Targeted energy efficiency investments have the potential to …

Economists advocate for using the price mechanism to manage water scarcity, but complex
nonlinear rate structures prevalent in markets for municipal water obscure price signals. We …

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continued to rise to 2019: the aggregate
reductions implied by current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to 2030 would …

Many low-and middle-income countries have made tremendous gains in electrification over
the past few decades. These improvements in electricity access have enabled a growing …

This paper examines how consumers respond to nonlinear prices. Exploiting a natural
experiment with electricity consumers in British Columbia, I find evidence that some …

Although different jurisdictions around the world had different motivations for restructuring
their electricity supply industries and introducing wholesale electricity markets, all had the …

Hundreds of millions of households depend on electricity grid connections providing low
quality and unreliable services. Understanding the impacts of and consumer response to …

Despite its importance for policy purposes, evidence about the price elasticity of natural gas
demand in the residential sector is very limited and based on inference from situations with …

Producers and consumers will make the investments and innovations necessary to transition
to a low carbon electricity supply industry only if they are compensated for their efforts. In the …