Weekly Energy Economics Paper Monitor

2026-04-12 to 2026-05-12

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 2026-04-12 to 2026-05-12
Papers Identified 2
Highlighted Below 2
Journals Checked 7

This week's shortlist centered on Micro evidence and empirical design and Energy demand, supply, markets, and policy, with 2 relevant papers identified and 2 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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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.

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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.

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.

Time is Money: The Social Benefits of Time-of-Use Tariffs

The Energy Journal | 2026-05-09

In this study, we first estimate the impact of a mandatory time-of-use (TOU) pricing policy on the aggregate electricity load and find evidence for statistically significant load-shifting effects. Next, we develop a data-driven method to examine the impact of the TOU pricing policy on social benefits in the electricity industry, including reductions in fuel costs, greenhouse gas emissions, capital investment in generation capacity, transmission congestion, and ancillary services. Our estimates reveal that the...

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