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Abstract Understanding consumers' short- and long-run response to electricity prices is essential for efficient market regulations, supplier planning decisions, and evaluation of policies for the economic development of the country. This work estimates the determinants of residential electricity demand for Brazil and for each of its five geographic regions, North, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast and South in a cointegration setup. The demand model accounts for the electricity prices, personal income, production and price of appliances, and climatic conditions, all of which show pronounced regional disparities. The data confirm that price and income elasticities are inelastic, both in the short- and long-run. Regional disaggregation yields the insight that price elasticities are insignificant in the North, Southeast and South, both in the short- and long-run. For the country as a whole, the short-term price effect is insignificant as well. This novel result casts doubt on recently implemented and future price-based policy measures that are necessary to reduce electricity consumption in a system that is frequently close to its maximum capacity. Brazil’s dependency on increasingly scarce rainfall and the rising electricity demand due to income increases require effective responses, however.    Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads FULL TEXT Published 2023-01-22 How to Cite Carrasco-Gutierrez, C. E., & Ehrl, P. (2023). Regional Estimates of Residential Electricity Demand in Brazil. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 13(1), 465–476. https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.13837 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023) Section Articles License Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously , that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication. Make a Submission Make a Submission Dergi Kapağı

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