• مطالعات اقتصادی مرتبط با حاملهای انرژی (فسیلی، تجدیدپذیر و برق)
Ali Mazyaki; Ali Asghar Salem; Sepideh Asadi
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The equality implications of tariff design for household gas and electricity, two essential substitutes, present a significant concern for policymakers. In this study, we examine this issue using a sample of household income quartiles across various social groups, exploring the diverse effects of changes ...
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The equality implications of tariff design for household gas and electricity, two essential substitutes, present a significant concern for policymakers. In this study, we examine this issue using a sample of household income quartiles across various social groups, exploring the diverse effects of changes in electricity and gas prices. The findings reveal that an increase in gas prices exerts a more pronounced impact on low-income groups compared to an equivalent increase in electricity prices. Our partial analysis indicates that gas exhibits less elasticity, likely attributed to the absence of a suitable substitute in the event of a price increase for this commodity. This observation underscores the lack of energy diversity that is rooted in the critical role of gas appliances in cooking and heating. This phenomenon poses a potential threat to the energy security of Iranian households.
مطالعات اقتصادی مرتبط با حاملهای انرژی (فسیلی، تجدیدپذیر و برق)
Ali Asghar Salem; Masoumeh azizkhani
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Despite the importance of energy inequality issues in Iran, the depth and extent of this issue have been neglected and have not been examined. The necessity of social justice, having an advanced society, and reducing the effects of energy inequality in the economic, social, and cultural growth and development ...
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Despite the importance of energy inequality issues in Iran, the depth and extent of this issue have been neglected and have not been examined. The necessity of social justice, having an advanced society, and reducing the effects of energy inequality in the economic, social, and cultural growth and development in a country, cause this issue to be investigated. The goal of this study is to identify and evaluate the factors that play an important role in energy inequality. Hence, this study investigated the impact of economic-social parameters on energy inequality by using the combined data method for 31 countries during 2009-2020. This research results show that three factors of population, energy price, and GDP have a negative and significant effect on the inequality of energy consumption. Also, variables such as government current expenditures and education have a significant and positive effect on energy consumption inequality. On the other hand, urbanism and development expenditures of the government have no noticeable relation with energy inequality
• مطالعات اقتصادی مرتبط با حاملهای انرژی (فسیلی، تجدیدپذیر و برق)
Leyla Jabari; Ali Asghar Salem
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In economic theories, Fiscal decentralization represents the shifting of decision-making power about the composition of tax revenues and non-tax revenues or expenditures are from the government to local units to provincial government officials, which leads to increased efficiency in resource allocation. ...
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In economic theories, Fiscal decentralization represents the shifting of decision-making power about the composition of tax revenues and non-tax revenues or expenditures are from the government to local units to provincial government officials, which leads to increased efficiency in resource allocation. And, since the pioneering study of Oates (1972), fiscal decentralization and its effects have garnered significant attention among economists. In the past years, global warming, carbon emissions, climate change due to increased energy consumption have brought the issues of fiscal federalism versus provincial institutions to the agenda of policymakers and energy research institutes. Because fiscal federalism can play a crucial role in reducing non-renewable energy consumption, promoting renewable energy, and reducing carbon emissions. Hence, energy economists have endeavored to shed on the association between fiscal decentralization and energy consumption and carbon emissions. In this way, this paper examines the effect of fiscal decentralization, in the form of shifting revenues and tax incomes responsibilities from the government to provincial institutions, as well as raising of the urbanization, GDP, and energy price on energy consumption for 31 Iran provinces from 2006 to 2020. To this end, this paper employs Quantile Regression with Non-additive Fixed Effects to analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on energy consumption. The results of this study show that fiscal decentralization has a non-linear relationship with energy consumption. In addition, the rising urbanization and GDP lead to high demand for energy consumption. Moreover, the rising energy price leads to low energy consumption.
Ali Asghar Salem; Mehdi Akaberi Tafti
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In order to estimate the direct rebound effect of improvement in electricity consumption efficiency in the residential urban areas in Iran, price elasticity of demand for electrical energy by AIDS model and the social and economic characteristics of households are used in this study. This model is estimated ...
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In order to estimate the direct rebound effect of improvement in electricity consumption efficiency in the residential urban areas in Iran, price elasticity of demand for electrical energy by AIDS model and the social and economic characteristics of households are used in this study. This model is estimated using Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) analysis of pool data on nearly 180 million urban households in the country during the period 1394 to 1385. The results show that direct rebound effect of efficiency improvement of electricity use in the residential urban areas in Iran is equal to 81% which is considerably higher compared to efficiency improvement rebound effect of other energies used by household. The calculation of direct rebound effect among income groups also shows that the effect among wealthy households is high. This means that the efficiency of electricity consumption improvement, has less saving effect in high-income groups than low and moderate income ones.
