Herding Cats: Firm Non-Compliance in China’s Industrial Energy Efficiency Program
We study firm responses to a large-scale energy efficiency program in China, focusing on the quality of reporting and compliance outcomes. Using statistical methods to detect data manipulation in compliance reports, we find evidence that firms deliberately exaggerated performance during the first ph...
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International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129746 |