The Tragedy of the Common Heating Bill
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Keywords
Free-riding; submetering; individual billing; heating energy; tragedy of the commons; welfare;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2025-02-10 (Big Data)
- NEP-ENE-2025-02-10 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2025-02-10 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2025-02-10 (Microeconomic European Issues)
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