Yueming Qiu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6272110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yueming Qiu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yueming |
| FAMILY NAME | Qiu |
| SIGNATURE | QIU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9233-4996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Net‐Zero Transitions Through Finance
This paper examines the global effects of sustainable finance policies on firms' greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Drawing on a framework that distinguishes between the motives for implementing different sustainable finance policies and the relevant instruments used to achieve them, we analyze data from over 10,000 public firms in 64 economies over 2002–2021 using a quasi–difference‐in–difference‐in‐differences strategy. We find that coun…
Rising U.S. Income Inequality and Declining Residential Electricity Consumption
After growing steadily for decades, average U.S. household energy consumption began declining in the mid-2000s. Using household-level data from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey and Current Population Survey between 1990 and 2020, we decompose overall changes in per household consumption into three components: average income, cross-household income distribution, and consumption habits, which include energy efficiency. Growth of average in…
Network structure matters
Battery storage can mitigate solar photovoltaic intermittency while enhancing household energy resilience, yet factors accelerating their co-adoption remain understudied. While networks are recognized as key elements in energy transitions, quantitative evidence on how network structures influence residential technology adoption is limited. We examine how local governance network structures influence solar-battery integration by analyzing renewabl…
What drives embodied carbon policy? A global perspective on adoption
Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emission associated with the lifecycle of buildings. Embodied carbon policies are critical for addressing the environmental impact of construction materials and advancing climate goals. Despite their importance, the adoption of embodied carbon policies has been limited globally, influenced by economic, environmental, institutional, and trade factors. This study employs structural equation modeling to a…
Freezing or searing
Comfort or cash? Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on energy insecurity and energy limiting behavior in households
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the incidence of energy poverty in the US. Existing literature mainly captures financial indicators of energy poverty during the pandemic, mainly inability to pay energy bills and disconnection of utility service. However, financial indicators alone cannot identify the full extent of energy poverty, as they miss out on energy limiting behavior. In this study, we conducted a survey eleven months into the COVID…
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market
Unveiling hidden energy poverty using the energy equity gap
Income-based energy poverty metrics ignore people’s behavior patterns, particularly reducing energy consumption to limit financial stress. We investigate energy-limiting behavior in low-income households using a residential electricity consumption dataset. We first determine the outdoor temperature at which households start using cooling systems, the inflection temperature. Our relative energy poverty metric, the energy equity gap , is defined as…
Impacts of electric-driven heat pumps on residential electricity consumption
Heat pumps play an important role in the electrification of the residential sector. The electrification of building energy consumption can have a significant impact on the load management of the electric grid. This study provides the first empirical investigation of the changes in hour-of-day loads after adopting heat pumps. We apply unique hourly electricity data for 13,010 residential consumers in Arizona during 2014–2019. Statistical matching,…
The impacts of special environmental events on short-run electricity-saving behaviors
Policymakers and academics are increasingly interested in using ‘social nudges’ to influence behavior, which are typically inexpensive relative to price-based and mandatory approaches. This study provides rigorous empirical evidence of the impacts of three big special environmental events, as a specific form of nudge, on short-run electricity-saving behaviors using high-frequency smart meter data in Shanghai, China, for both residential and comme…
Loss of profit in the hotel industry of the United States due to climate change
Tourism has been identified as a key economic sector vulnerable to climate change, yet direct empirical evidence is still lacking on the economic gain and loss of the tourism industry due to climate change. Here we find that temperature significantly affects the profits of the hotel industry with both spatial and seasonal heterogeneity. By using a rich dataset of the monthly financial records of more than 1700 hotels in 50 US states during 2016–2…
Better sustainability assessment of green buildings with high-frequency data
Risk preferences and purchase of energy-efficient technologies in the residential sector
Risk preferences and purchase of energy-efficient technologies in the residential sector
Better sustainability assessment of green buildings with high-frequency data
Loss of profit in the hotel industry of the United States due to climate change
Tourism has been identified as a key economic sector vulnerable to climate change, yet direct empirical evidence is still lacking on the economic gain and loss of the tourism industry due to climate change. Here we find that temperature significantly affects the profits of the hotel industry with both spatial and seasonal heterogeneity. By using a rich dataset of the monthly financial records of more than 1700 hotels in 50 US states during 2016–2…
The impacts of special environmental events on short-run electricity-saving behaviors
Policymakers and academics are increasingly interested in using ‘social nudges’ to influence behavior, which are typically inexpensive relative to price-based and mandatory approaches. This study provides rigorous empirical evidence of the impacts of three big special environmental events, as a specific form of nudge, on short-run electricity-saving behaviors using high-frequency smart meter data in Shanghai, China, for both residential and comme…
Unveiling hidden energy poverty using the energy equity gap
Income-based energy poverty metrics ignore people’s behavior patterns, particularly reducing energy consumption to limit financial stress. We investigate energy-limiting behavior in low-income households using a residential electricity consumption dataset. We first determine the outdoor temperature at which households start using cooling systems, the inflection temperature. Our relative energy poverty metric, the energy equity gap , is defined as…
Impacts of electric-driven heat pumps on residential electricity consumption
Heat pumps play an important role in the electrification of the residential sector. The electrification of building energy consumption can have a significant impact on the load management of the electric grid. This study provides the first empirical investigation of the changes in hour-of-day loads after adopting heat pumps. We apply unique hourly electricity data for 13,010 residential consumers in Arizona during 2014–2019. Statistical matching,…
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market
Comfort or cash? Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on energy insecurity and energy limiting behavior in households
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the incidence of energy poverty in the US. Existing literature mainly captures financial indicators of energy poverty during the pandemic, mainly inability to pay energy bills and disconnection of utility service. However, financial indicators alone cannot identify the full extent of energy poverty, as they miss out on energy limiting behavior. In this study, we conducted a survey eleven months into the COVID…
Network structure matters
Battery storage can mitigate solar photovoltaic intermittency while enhancing household energy resilience, yet factors accelerating their co-adoption remain understudied. While networks are recognized as key elements in energy transitions, quantitative evidence on how network structures influence residential technology adoption is limited. We examine how local governance network structures influence solar-battery integration by analyzing renewabl…
What drives embodied carbon policy? A global perspective on adoption
Embodied carbon refers to the greenhouse gas emission associated with the lifecycle of buildings. Embodied carbon policies are critical for addressing the environmental impact of construction materials and advancing climate goals. Despite their importance, the adoption of embodied carbon policies has been limited globally, influenced by economic, environmental, institutional, and trade factors. This study employs structural equation modeling to a…
Freezing or searing
Net‐Zero Transitions Through Finance
This paper examines the global effects of sustainable finance policies on firms' greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Drawing on a framework that distinguishes between the motives for implementing different sustainable finance policies and the relevant instruments used to achieve them, we analyze data from over 10,000 public firms in 64 economies over 2002–2021 using a quasi–difference‐in–difference‐in‐differences strategy. We find that coun…
Rising U.S. Income Inequality and Declining Residential Electricity Consumption
After growing steadily for decades, average U.S. household energy consumption began declining in the mid-2000s. Using household-level data from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey and Current Population Survey between 1990 and 2020, we decompose overall changes in per household consumption into three components: average income, cross-household income distribution, and consumption habits, which include energy efficiency. Growth of average in…
Economics (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Electricity (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Environmental economics (6 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (5 works) · Energy consumption (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works) · Agricultural economics (4 works) · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (4 works)