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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111534
	Responsiveness to energy price changes when salience is high: Residential natural gas demand in Ukraine
	Alberini A.; Khymych O.; Ščasný M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	144
英文摘要	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 modest variation in prices. We focus on a locale and time when price changes were extreme and salient to consumers, namely Ukraine between 2013 and 2017. We exploit the tariff reforms and detailed micro-level household consumption records to assess whether consumers adjust their consumption in response to the rate changes and estimate the price elasticity of the demand for natural gas. To isolate behavior, attention is restricted to those households that made no structural energy-efficiency upgrades to their homes, thus keeping the stock of gas-using capital fixed. We find that households are capable of reducing consumption, even without installing insulation or making any other structural modifications to their homes. The price elasticity is about -0.16. Wealthier households, people living in multifamily buildings, and heavy users have more inelastic demands. Households reduced consumption even when they received government assistance. This, and the fact the demand is inelastic, especially for wealthier households, bode well for tariffs or energy tax schemes where wealthier households subsidize the consumption of the poorer ones. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Energy transition Residential gas demand Salience Short-run price elasticity Tariff reforms
英文关键词	Elasticity; Energy efficiency; Housing; Taxation; Energy prices; Household Consumption; Natural gas demand; Price changes; Price elasticity; Residential sectors; Structural energies; Structural modifications; Natural gas; demand elasticity; energy policy; natural gas; price dynamics; residential energy; Ukraine
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204530
作者单位	AREC, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Charles University Environment Center, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alberini A.,Khymych O.,Ščasný M.. Responsiveness to energy price changes when salience is high: Residential natural gas demand in Ukraine[J],2020,144.
APA	Alberini A.,Khymych O.,&Ščasný M..(2020).Responsiveness to energy price changes when salience is high: Residential natural gas demand in Ukraine.Energy Policy,144.
MLA	Alberini A.,et al."Responsiveness to energy price changes when salience is high: Residential natural gas demand in Ukraine".Energy Policy 144(2020).