A set of slides discussing the effect of electric rates on conservation, using the example of metered and unmetered electricity in New York apartments.
Electric rates and conservation a natural experiment
1. Free Slides from Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com/ A Natural Experiment in Demand Elasticity: Metered vs. Unmetered Electricity Post prepared August 17, 2010 Terms of Use: These slides are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution—Share Alike 3.0 . You are free to use these slides as a resource for your economics classes together with whatever textbook you are using. If you like the slides, you may also want to take a look at my textbook, Introduction to Economics , from BVT Publishers.