RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.3917/reco.741.0051
A1 Crampes, Claude
A1 Léautier, Thomas-Olivier
T1 Les Certificats d'Economie d'Energie entre économie et politique
JF Revue Économique
YR 2023
FD 2023
VO vol. 74
IS n° 1
SP 51
OP 80
K1 Economies d’énergie
K1 Certificats blancs
K1 Micro-politiques
K1 Mécanismes incitatifs
AB To encourage building renovations and the replacement of old energy-consuming equipment, some governments have introduced a system of white certificates requiring large producers and distributors of natural gas, electricity and fuel to prove that they have financed energy-saving operations. The system is proving to be much less efficient than expected because energy saving works are "credence goods", which means that their quality can be correctly measured neither before nor after their achievement. Because of this informational bias, white certificates encourage economically inefficient works. Despite this, they are favored by the public authorities because they belong to the panoply of nonpunitive,  non-fiscal, decentralized and local job-creating micro-policies.
PB Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques
SN 0035-2764
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/46199/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/126357