O presente trabalho visa avaliar o resultado dos projetos de eficiência energética para o segmento baixa renda, comparando resultados de projetos de troca de equipamentos obsoletos por equipamentos novos e eficientes, com ...

This paper investigates the relationship between electricity consumption, economic classification and household income, by means of comparing Brazilian Census Micro-Data with the customer database of AES Eletropaulo, a ...

Housing is an important component of wealth for a typical household in many countries. The objective of this paper is to investigate the e§ect of real-estate price variation on welfare, trying to close a gap between the ...

This thesis encompasses five papers about two Brazilian infrastructure sectors: energy and road transportation. In the first paper, we model the bid in the Brazilian transmission lines auctions, in order to understand why ...

This paper studies the electricity load demand behavior during the 2001 rationing period, which was implemented because of the Brazilian energetic crisis. The hourly data refers to a utility situated in the southeast of ...

In a corporate world the increase in profitability permeates by effective actions in relation to the prevention and reduction of waste. In 2016 the Energy Research Company (Empresa de Pesquisa Energética) - EPE data showed ...

This paper develops a structural economic model of the residential sector of an economy. The model features households that are heterogeneous with regard to their income. Given their incomes, households decide how much to ...