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Energy Labels, House Prices, and Efficiency Misreporting

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What are the implications of the use of discrete energy efficiency labels in the housing market? Using public administrative data from France, where properties are evaluated on a scale from A to G, we show that house prices drop — but time on the market jumps — discontinuously when energy consumption crosses the boundary to a lower rating. These results suggest that, when searching for a home, households form consideration sets excluding properties with energy labels that are considered too unfavorable. We also document substantial bunching of energy performance estimates just below the relevant cut-off values. This pattern appears to be driven by intentional misreporting of properties’ energy efficiency by certified technicians. However, we estimate that the average under-reporting by marginal bunching technicians is relatively small in economic terms, namely 0.7–1.9% of the relevant energy consumption threshold value.
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hal-04414133 , version 1 (24-01-2024)

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Xinyu Lu, Christophe Spaenjers. Energy Labels, House Prices, and Efficiency Misreporting. 2023. ⟨hal-04414133⟩

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