Scaling Compliance with Coverage? Firm-level Performace in China's Industrial Energy Conservation Program

This research was supported by Eni S.p.A. (Award No. 5210000541), the French Development Agency (AFD, Award No. RCH‑2012‑277), ICF International (MIT Energy Initiative Associate Membership Agreement), and Shell International Limited (Award No. PT14937), founding sponsors of the MIT‑Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project. We further acknowledge the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy for supporting this work through a cooperative agreement to MIT (Award No. DE‑EI0001908). At MIT, the China Energy and Climate Project is part of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is supported by a consortium of industrial sponsors and U.S. federal grants, including a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (Award No. DE‑FG02‑94ER61937).

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