2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study of a mitigation method for the rebound effect : An economic approach.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20830131
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Applied economics
Research Institution	Matsuyama University
Principal Investigator	MIZOBUCHI Kenichi Matsuyama University, 経済学部, 講師 (90510066)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Research Abstract	A brief summary of this research product is as follows. First, for examining one of the mitigation methods of the rebound effect, we focus on an environmental awareness that can decrease the rebound effect. We use the data of passenger vehicles of Car Censer" which is the company of used vehicles and estimate the rebound. The results show that the rebound effect does not occur when the driver has a high environmental awareness. We presented this paper at EAERE annual conference and reported in the Journal of Matsuyama university. Second, we purchased the micro panel data of passenger vehicles from "IRI-CT" which includes the data of real fuel-efficiency for estimating more high-integrity size of the rebound. The estimation results show that the size of the rebound effect of Japanese passenger vehicles is about 29%. We presented this paper at Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studiesre-submitted for the Journal.