Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program

Matthew J. Kotchen

NBER Working Paper No. 16117
Issued in June 2010

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This paper is a contribution to the NBER conference on The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy, May 13-14, National Press Club, Washington, DC. I am grateful to Bryan Garcia (Yale Center for Business and the Environment), Bob Wall (Connecticut Clean Energy Fund), and especially Greg Clendenning (NMR Group Inc.) for helpful discussions about the programs studied in this paper and for assisting with data collection. I also thank Lucas Davis and Catherine Wolfram for helpful comments on a earlier version of the paper. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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