Product Description: This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.S. economy.• Addresses broad questions concerning electricity systems and the economy • Documents innovative, energy-efficiency technologies, practices, and policies• Estimates the achievable cost-effectiveness and economic impact of energy efficiency in the United States• Illustrates a range of promising strategies for expanding green savings• Argues for more market intelligence, monitoring, and evaluation so that energy, economic, and climate goals are met• Showcases the policy environments that have enabled energy efficiency to thrive in leading cities, states, and countries around the worl...read more

Product Description: I utilize a mechanism design framework to show that the current most popular practice in the timeshare exchange industry can be greatly improved without a tremendous change in their fundamental systems. By focusing on the ten-billion dollar timeshare industry and proposing a superior mechanism to improve its operation, the research has significant substantive implications...read more