Privatizing Climate Change Policy: Is there a Public Benefit?
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Keywords
Voluntary environmental programs; Climate change policy; Chicago climate exchange; Carbon disclosure project; Difference-in-differences model; Propensity score matching; Greenwash; Q50; Q54; Q58; D80; C23;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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