Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Aras Khazal and Ole Jakob Sonstebo
Title:  Energy Efficiency Premium Issues and Revealing the Pure Label Effect
Classification-JEL: F0
Volume:  Volume 44
Issue:  Number 1
Year:  2023
Abstract:  Following the European Union's implementation of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for buildings, the capitalization of energy efficiency in transaction prices and rents has been subject to much research. This paper uses different identification strategies for the Norwegian residential sales (N = 750,000) and rental (N = 670,000) markets to highlight the endogeneity and methodological limitations associated with assessing the price effects of energy efficiency and the signaling effect of label adoption. We find that the valuation of energy efficiency is subject to unobserved location and quality bias, that labeling has immediate, short-run, and long-run price effects and that different effects are observed in different submarkets. We provide evidence that sample selection issues related to location and time, with methodological and data limitations, are essential factors that must be considered when assessing the effects of the EPC implementation.    
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