Do Energy Efficiency Standards Hurt Consumers? Evidence From Household Appliance Sales

Brucal, Arlan; Roberts, Michael

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Do Energy Efficiency Standards Hurt Consumers? Evidence From Household Appliance Sales

2017
By Brucal, Arlan ; Roberts, Michael
Series: Centre for Climate Change Economics

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University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sea Grant College Program ; University of Leeds ; London School of Economics and Political Science ; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

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Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)

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How do energy efficiency standards affect consumer welfare? We answer this question by looking at how these standards affect price and quality of major appliances sold in the US between 2001 and 2011. Using a novel index that uses the same-model price changes of appliances to disentangle price changes from perceived quality changes, we derive welfare effects as functions of changes in price and quality as energy-efficiency standards became more stringent. Contrary to common belief, we find an indication that prices declined while quality and consumer welfare increased, especially when more stringent energy efficiency standards were enforced. We also find that much of the price decline is attributed to standards-induced innovation and not from Inter-manufacturer competition. Our results and technique generate methodological insights in Accounting for quality adjustments in price indexing.
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Centre for Climate Change Economics ; and Policy Working Paper No. 300 ; Grantham Research Institute on Climate ; Change and the Environment ; Working Paper No. 266

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