Price and income elasticities of electricity demand: evidence from Jamaica

Crawford School of Public Policy | Arndt-Corden Department of Economics

Event details

PhD Seminar (Econ)

Date & time

Friday 14 October 2016
9.30am–11.00am

Venue

Seminar Room 1, Stanner Building 37, Lennox Crossing, ANU

Speaker

Alrick Campbell, PhD scholar, Crawford School, ANU.

Jamaica’s electricity sector faces supply-side challenges. Demand-side policies have the potential to improve electricity use efficiency and reduce the likelihood of electricity disruptions. In this paper, I use the bounds testing approach to cointegration to obtain long-run price elasticity of demand estimates for the period 1970–2014. The analysis focuses on aggregate electricity demand and three categories of consumers: residential, commercial, and industrial. The findings suggest that residential and industrial consumers are most responsive to price changes, with long-run price elasticities of demand of –0.75 and –0.28, respectively. Price-based approaches are likely to be more successful in slowing electricity demand growth in these sectors.

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