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Energy Demand and Trade in General Equilibrium

Egger, Peter ; Nigai, Sergey

In: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2015, vol. 60, no. 2, p. 191-213

Haute école de gestion de Genève

How can digital technologies influence Swiss consumers’ purchasing behavior in the sustainable fashion industry ?

Presset, Kenza ; Maeder, Eric (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 82.

This research paper aims at understanding the effectiveness of digital technologies on Swiss consumers’ buying behavior in the sustainable fashion industry. It focuses on three main digital technologies: social media, mobile applications and e-commerce platforms. The theoretical background investigates sustainable fashion and reveals its complexity, mainly due to the lack of a universal...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Understanding the intention-behaviour gap in eco-friendly consumption : why consumers’ eco-friendly purchase intentions differ from their actual purchasing behaviour ?

Teixeira, Stefanie ; Connerton, Timothy (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 105.

Due to current global challenges, changes in consumer behaviour are required for an eco-friendly development based on responsible demand (Hirsch and Terlau, 2015). However, a difference between intentions towards eco-friendly consumption and actual behaviour has been observed (Hirsch and Terlau, 2015). For instance, 30% to 50% of consumers mentioned intend to purchase eco-friendly products,...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Essays in household finance and monetary policy transmission

Gianinazzi, Virginia ; Plazzi, Alberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO005.

This thesis consists of three chapters that contribute to two fundamental questions in finance: how households make financial decisions and how market prices react to uninformative demand shocks. The first chapter investigates how household respond to mortgage refinancing incentives. A well-documented finding in household finance is that many borrowers miss out on substantial savings by...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The role of smart meters in enabling real-time energy services for households : the Italian case

Pitì, Alessandro ; Verticale, Giacomo ; Rottondi, Cristina ; Capone, Antonio ; Lo Schiavo, Luca

In: Energies, 2017, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 199

The Smart Meter (SM) is an essential tool for successful balancing the demand-offer energy curve. It allows the linking of the consumption and production measurements with the time information and the customer’s identity, enabling the substitution of flat-price billing with smarter solutions, such as Time-of-Use or Real-Time Pricing. In addition to sending data to the energy operators for...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Survey on the design of gamified systems for energy and water sustainability

Albertarelli, Spartaco ; Fraternali, Piero ; Herrera, Sergio ; Melenhorst, Mark ; Novak, Jasminko ; Pasini, Chiara ; Rizzoli, Andrea-Emilio ; Rottondi, Cristina

In: Games, 2018, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 38

In a world affected by the constant growth and concentration of the population in urban areas, the problem of preserving natural resources has become a priority. A promising approach to resource conservation is demand management, i.e., the ability to positively influence the behaviour of the population towards more sustainable consumption. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools...