Autor(en): Andor, Mark
Frondel, Manuel
Sommer, Stephan
Titel: Equity and the Willingness to Pay for Green Electricity: Evidence from Germany
Sprache (ISO): en
Zusammenfassung: The production of electricity on the basis of renewable energy technologies is a classic example of an impure public good. It is often discriminatively financed by industrial and household consumers, such as in Germany, where the energy-intensive sector benefits from far-reaching exemptions, while all other electricity consumers are forced to bear a higher burden. Based on randomized information treatments in a stated-choice experiment among about 11,000 German households, we explore whether this coercive payment rule affects households’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for green electricity. Our central result is that reducing inequity by abolishing the exemption for the energy-intensive industry raises households’ WTP, a finding that may have high external validity.
Schlagwörter: stated-choice experiment
fairness
behavioral economics
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/36800
http://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-18801
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 823

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