RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Data‐based policymaking. Applications to energy and tourism policies
A1 Moniche Bermejo, Ana María
K1 Política gubernamental - Tesis doctorales
AB This thesis explores how policy makers can take advantage of data to improve the policy design process. It does so by considering two separate case studies applied to two topics, energy consumption and tourism, which entail relevant policy questions and which have important implications for sustainability.Each case study delves into a distinct phase of the policy design process. The first study (covered in Chapters 1 and 2) delves into consumer behaviour within the energy sector and performs an ex‐post evaluation of a significant collective switching initiative implemented in the UK in 2012. This initiative aimed to encourage consumers to switch to more affordable energy tariffs. As an ex‐post analysis, policy makers play a passive role as they serve as final recipients of the policy evaluation exercise. However, they can utilize this knowledge to promote similar initiatives based on the success of the original one or incorporate changes to improve the policy design. The second study, covered in Chapter 3, grants an active role to policy makers in the development of easily understandable knowledge products for their use. This chapter effectively captures the communication dilemmas surrounding the choice between a dashboard or a composite index, or even both, as means of conveying information.Collective switching mechanisms are a tool that has garnered extensive utilization not only in the United Kingdom but also in other nations, aiming to encourage consumers to switch their energy providers, thereby intensifying competitive pressure in the energy market. The ultimate goal is to leverage this increased competition as a mechanism to drive down prices.From the demand side and from a policy point of view, the evaluation of the effectiveness of these mechanisms is a key issue if one is to recommend their use as a means to make consumers get cheaper energy deals, as high energy prices are one important factor in any definition of fuel poverty.
PB UMA Editorial
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28820
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/28820
LA eng
NO The importance of fuel prices and poverty are increasingly important in the light of recent events, with the outbreak of COVID‐19, the Ukrainian conflict and the recent global inflation.The ex‐post policy evaluation presents some big challenges. The first one is the compilation of the database, which comes from a collective switching initiative that took place in May 2012 in the United Kingdom and that was promoted by Which?, the largest consumer organization in the United Kingdom with more than 600,000 subscribers. Hence, by nature it is a commercial database that was not designed to serve any purpose other than administrative requirements.To perform the ex‐post evaluation, the commercial database needs to be complemented and integrated with additional information. Chapter 1 offers a methodological account of the process of generating and designing the datasetnecessary to carry out an evaluation analysis. It focuses on how to conduct a survey to participants to unveil the reasons for taking / or not taking cheaper deals.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026