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TY - JOUR
T1 - Stranded houses?
T2 - The price effect of a minimum energy efficiency standard
AU - Ferentinos, Konstantinos
AU - Gibberd, Alex
AU - Guin, Benjamin
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Energy Economics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Energy Economics, 120, 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106555
PY - 2023/4/30
Y1 - 2023/4/30
N2 - Climate policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions can lead to decreases in the values of assets, risking them to become “stranded”. We study the price effects of the introduction of a specific climate policy, a minimum energy efficiency standard, in the housing market. Leveraging a unique data set of the population of all residential house transactions in England and Wales, we show that prices of energy-inefficient properties affected by this policy decreased on average by about £5k to £9k relative to efficient ones. We interpret this evidence as being consistent with semi-strong market efficiency in the housing market.
AB - Climate policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions can lead to decreases in the values of assets, risking them to become “stranded”. We study the price effects of the introduction of a specific climate policy, a minimum energy efficiency standard, in the housing market. Leveraging a unique data set of the population of all residential house transactions in England and Wales, we show that prices of energy-inefficient properties affected by this policy decreased on average by about £5k to £9k relative to efficient ones. We interpret this evidence as being consistent with semi-strong market efficiency in the housing market.
KW - Climate policy
KW - House prices
KW - Energy efficiency
U2 - 10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106555
DO - 10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106555
M3 - Journal article
VL - 120
JO - Energy Economics
JF - Energy Economics
SN - 0140-9883
M1 - 106555
ER -