MARKET INDUCED AND GOVERNMENT MANDATED ENERGY CONSERVATION IN THE HOUSING MARKET: Econometric Evidence from the U.S

John Quigley

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 1991, vol. 3, issue 1, 28-38

Abstract: This paper integrates and compares me results of two large†scale econometric analyses of the effects of residential energy prices upon the U.S. housing market. A simple model of energy consumption in the housing market is developed, and the results of these studies are compared with the common model. The two studies, using very different bodies of data and very different econometric techniques, yield very similar implications in terms of household expenditures and patterns of consumption. In particular, both studies confirm the importance of “natural conservation†in the housing market. Higher energy prices lead to substantially lower consumption of residential energy, even in the absence of regulation. In particular, it is estimated that a doubling of energy prices leads to a reduction of residential energy consumption of about twenty†five percent.

Date: 1991
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