Time-Varying Pricing May Increase Total Electricity Consumption: Evidence from Costa Rica

Resource and Energy Economics (2021) Tabaré Capitán, Francisco Alpízar, Róger Madrigal-Ballestero, Subhrendu K.Pattanayak. Abstract We study the implementation of a time-varying pricing (TVP) program by a major electricity utility in Costa Rica. Because of particular features of the data, we use recently developed understanding of the two-way fixed effects differences-in-differences estimator along with event-study specificationsContinueContinue reading “Time-Varying Pricing May Increase Total Electricity Consumption: Evidence from Costa Rica”