Reporting Bias and Monitoring in Clean Development Mechanism Projects*
HUI CHEN, University of Zürich
PETER LETMATHE, RWTH Aachen University†
NAOMI SODERSTROM, University of Melbourne
March 31, 2020
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We gratefully acknowledge funding from a Leeds School
Sustainability Research Grant (University of Colorado). This work has benefitted from input by
Gavin Cassar, Steve Kaplan, Roger Simnett, and workshop participants at Monash University,
National University of Singapore, and University of New South Wales. Tony Cao, Angus
Hervey, Phillipp Kloeber, Andrew Lin, Sven Raak, Kelly Soderstrom, and Karin Temperly have
provided valuable research assistance. We thank Peter Clarkson and two anonymous reviewers
for their valuable advice and guidance. An earlier version of the paper circulated under the title
“Estimation Bias and Monitoring in Clean Development Mechanism Projects.”