The recent push for a federal energy policy that could substantially change electricity prices in the U.S. highlights the need to obtain accurate residential electricity demand estimates. Many electricity demand estimates have been obtained based on the assumption that consumers optimize with...

We estimate residential electricity demand for different regions of the country, assuming that consumers respond to average electricity prices. We circumvent the need for individual billing information by developing a novel generalized method of moments approach that allows us to estimate demand...

There is significant potential for natural gas to meet a growing share of developing countries' energy demands. The constraints to rapid gas development are not related to supply potential or cost but rather to the country-specific problem of evolving a gas-investment framework, in which...