Using data on Google searches, I suggest that the spiky nature of electricity markets has a strong effect on searching for information on energy efficiency goods. I identify the informational effect by decomposing prices into smoothed and deviation components.
Economics Letters
How Price Spikes Can Help Overcome the Energy Efficiency Gap
Journal Article
Reference
Mauritzen, Johannes (2015). “How Price Spikes Can Help Overcome the Energy Efficiency Gap”. Economics Letters 134, 114–117. doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.07.008
Mauritzen, Johannes (2015). “How Price Spikes Can Help Overcome the Energy Efficiency Gap”. Economics Letters 134, 114–117. doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.07.008
Author
Johannes Mauritzen