Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Mark F. Morss
Title:  The Incidence of Welfare Losses Due to Appliance Efficiency Standards
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  111-118
Volume:  Volume 10
Issue:  Number 1
Year:  1989
Abstract:  The effect of appliance efficiency standards upon household energy consumption has recently occupied the attention of energy economists: Khazzoom (1987), Bold (1987), Lovins (1988), and Henly et al. (1988). This paper is concerned with the equally important question of the effects of such standards upon household welfare. It is shown that the households most likely to prefer less efficient appliances, and therefore to suffer welfare losses when standards are imposed, are those with low levels of appliance usage- This in conjunction with the results of empirical studies of appliance electricity demand makes it possible to characterize the affected households. An important result developed here is that the direction of given effects upon the demand for appliance efficiency may be deduced from the direction of the corresponding effects upon appliance electricity consumption.
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