Climate ChangeS provides researchers with a timely and accurate update of new research papers on the Economics of Climate Change. On a weekly basis, links to the most recent and interesting working papers are aggregated from a variety of sources for easy and convenient reference. The focus is on research at the frontier, with most contributions appearing just a few days after having been released. For this reason, journal articles are not tracked.

August 10, 2008

Measuring Residential Energy Efficiency Improvements with DEA.

by Peter Grösche

- This paper measures energy efficiency improvements of US single-family homes between 1997 and 2001 using a two-stage procedure. In the first stage,
an indicator of energy efficiency is derived by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA),and the analogy between the DEA estimator and traditional measures of energy efficiency is demonstrated. The second stage employs a bootstrapped truncated regression technique to decompose the variation in the obtained efficiency estimates into a climatic component and factors attributed to efficiency improvements.

Grösche, P. (2008). "Measuring Residential Energy Efficiency Improvements with DEA." Ruhr Economic Papers #60, Aug 2008.

Labels: