Weekly Energy Economics Paper Monitor

2026-03-21 to 2026-04-20

Weekly Brief

This weekly digest tracks newly published papers from selected journals and free metadata feeds, with a primary focus on energy economics across demand, supply, markets, prices, policy, and forecasting. Climate-sensitive demand, exposure, adaptation, and specialized empirical approaches are treated as important subthemes rather than hard requirements.

Report Window 2026-03-21 to 2026-04-20
Papers Identified 3
Highlighted Below 3
Journals Checked 7

This week's shortlist centered on Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy and Micro evidence and empirical design, with 3 relevant papers identified and 3 highlighted below.

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Key Themes This Week

A quick overview of the main ideas that shaped this reporting window.

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Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy

The strongest papers this week focused on core energy-economics questions around demand, supply, pricing, market design, and policy.

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Micro evidence and empirical design

Several papers used household-, firm-, or regional-level evidence to study behavior, heterogeneity, and policy incidence in energy-economics settings.

Weekly Synthesis

The sections below bring the most relevant papers together with short editorial summaries and direct links.

Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy

This week's most relevant papers concentrated on core questions in energy demand, supply, prices, and policy.

Micro evidence and empirical design

The most useful micro and empirical papers this week provided micro-level evidence on energy behavior, pricing, and policy incidence and distributional or regional heterogeneity.

Energy Efficiency Labeling and Household Energy Consumption Behavior in China: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

The Energy Journal | 2026-04-18

Given China’s pressure to reduce energy use and the rise of Chinese residents’ energy consumption in the last decades, it is of significance to investigate the energy consumption behaviors of Chinese households. This paper examines the impacts of energy efficiency labeling on Chinese households’ use of domestic appliances, using the data from a national household survey (i.e., the Chinese General Social Survey) in 2015. Applying the propensity score matching (PSM) approach, we find a positive relationship...

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