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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.112095
	Information policies and biased cost perceptions - The case of Swedish residential energy consumption
	Broberg T.; Kažukauskas A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	149
英文摘要	Households typically receive utility bills where all electricity use during a fixed period is lumped together. The lack of direct feedback in the form of marginal costs of using specific electric appliances potentially leads to mistakes in households' decision-making because of biased cost perceptions. In this paper, we test the commonly held notion that lack of relevant energy-related knowledge results in cost underestimation of using electric appliances that may lead to over-consumption of energy. Contrary to this notion, our results show that less knowledgeable energy consumers tend to have higher cost perceptions than others. This finding implies that less knowledgeable energy consumers may consume too little of energy. We also find that a substantial share of the sampled households, in particular less knowledgeable energy consumers, are less willing to receive relevant cost-free information about their energy use and costs. This finding suggests that poor energy-related knowledge may not only be a matter of high information search and processing costs, but also a matter of consumers’ limited attention capacity. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Efficiency Energy literacy Energy policy Information Knowledge Perceptions
英文关键词	Decision making; Electric appliances; Energy policy; Consumption of energy; Energy related knowledge; Free information; Information policy; Information search; Limited attentions; Processing costs; Residential energy consumption; Energy utilization; consumption behavior; decision making; efficiency measurement; energy policy; knowledge; perception; Sweden
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/205024
作者单位	Umeå School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå University, Sweden; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Lithuania
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Broberg T.,Kažukauskas A.. Information policies and biased cost perceptions - The case of Swedish residential energy consumption[J],2021,149.
APA	Broberg T.,&Kažukauskas A..(2021).Information policies and biased cost perceptions - The case of Swedish residential energy consumption.Energy Policy,149.
MLA	Broberg T.,et al."Information policies and biased cost perceptions - The case of Swedish residential energy consumption".Energy Policy 149(2021).