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dc.contributor.authorSimshauser, Paul
dc.contributor.authorNelson, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T12:00:21Z
dc.date.available2018-05-17T12:00:21Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn0004-9018
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8462.12043
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/64168
dc.description.abstractThe Australian energy sector is nearing the end of an investment megacycle, which has driven above-trend electricity tariff increases. In this article, we combine energy market and demographic data and find that the dominant thought on customer hardship, aged pensioners, pales into insignificance by comparison to those in the Family Formation cohort, those known as Australia's 'working poor'. Our modelling results are clear in their implications: hardship policy for energy customers requires re-engineering. The structure of electricity tariffs requires an overhaul-shifting to interval meters, time-of-use pricing and monthly billing to redress the investment megacycle and the incidence of hardship.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom13
dc.relation.ispartofpageto43
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThe Australian Economic Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume47
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther economics not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconometrics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomic theory
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode38
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode389999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3802
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3803
dc.titleThe consequences of retail electricity price rises: Rethinking customer hardship
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
gro.rights.copyright© 2014 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: The Consequences of Retail Electricity Price Rises: Rethinking Customer Hardship, Australian Economic Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 13–43 which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12043. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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gro.griffith.authorSimshauser, Paul E.
gro.griffith.authorNelson, Tim A.


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