The rebound effect: an assessment of the evidence for economy-wide energy savings from improved energy efficiency

By S. Sorrell. 2007

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Citations in the corpus

• Assessing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Measures in the Residential Sector Gas Consumption Through Dynamic Treatment Effects: Evidence from England and Wales (2022, background): “…direct rebound effects of the adoption of particular efficiency measures affecting heating are rare and, in most cases, they only use a relatively short-term before and after comparison without a control group and/or without controlling for confounding variables (see Sorrell, 2007 for a review).”
• The economy-wide rebound effect from improved energy efficiency in Swedish industries–A general equilibrium analysis (2015, background): “The many approaches have contributed to a wide spread in the empirical estimates, which in turn have contributed to divergent conclusions about the size and relevance of the rebound effect (Greening et al., 2000; Sorrell, 2007 and van den Bergh, 2011).”
• Using Public Transport Can Make Up for Flying Abroad on Holiday (2015, background): “While the present research offers an initial insight into the cognitive factors that might give rise to the emergence of rebound effects (e.g., Sorrell, 2007), future research might usefully adopt longitudinal designs that can identify the direction of causation (e.g., does the endorsement of CGBs…”
• Who rebounds most? Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for different UK socioeconomic groups (2014, background): “These often find that low-income households have larger rebound effects since they are further from satiation in their consumption of heating services (Hong et al., 2006; Madlener and Hauertmann, 2011; Sorrell, 2007).”
• Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for U.S. households with input–output analysis Part 1: Theoretical framework (2013, background): “There has been considerable empirical research on the direct rebound effect, measured in terms of ef fi ciency elasticities, energy service price elasticities, and energy price elasticities (Sorrell and Dimitropoulos, 2008) and using a variety of theoretical frameworks (Sorrell, 2007).”
• Impact caps: why population, affluence and technology strategies should be abandoned. (2010, background): “The jury to be sure is still out on the precise relationship between per-unit efficiency changes, per unit price changes and total units consumed; in fancy terms, the efficiency elasticity of demand has not been microeconomically computed [15].”
• The Long Run Demand for Lighting:Elasticities and Rebound Effects in Different Phases of Economic Development (2012, background): “For a review and classification, see Sorrell (2007) and Sorrell and Dimitropoulos (2007).”
• The macroeconomic rebound effect and the world economy (2009, methodology): “There are three broad sectors for which these direct rebound effects have been empirically estimated in the evaluations of the IPCC AR4 energyefficiency policies and reviewed in (Sorrell 2007; Sorrell et al. 2009).”