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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Main Authors: Karplus, Valerie Jean (Author), Shen, Xingyao (Author), Zhang, Da (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), 2021-02-11T21:08:46Z.
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