PrefaceⅠ
List of TablesⅨ
List of FiguresⅪ
Chapter 1 Introduction1
Chapter 2 Policy Introduction: the California Solar Initiative
1)The Joint Staff Report
2)Megawatt-Triggering Mechanism
3)Incentive Application Process
Chapter 3 Optimal Subsidy Design with Stochastic Learning: A Dynamic Programming Evaluation of the California Solar Initiative
1)Introduction
2)The California Solar Initiative: Policy in Retrospect
(1)CSI Target and Budget Setting
(2)Megawatt-Triggering Mechanism
(3)CSI Performance
3)Modeling and Parameterization
(1)Model Setup
(2)Parameterization
4)Results
(1)Analytic Results
(2)Deterministic Case
(3)Stochastic Case
5)Conclusions
Chapter 4 Incentive Pass-through for Residential Solar Systems in California
1)Introduction
2)Literature Review
3)Methods and Data
(1)Structural Modeling
(2)Reduced-form Regression
(3)Data
4)Results
(1)Structural Modeling
(2)Reduced-form Approach
5)Conclusions
Chapter 5 Analyzing Incentive Pass-through for the California Solar Initiative: A Regression Discontinuity Design95
1)Introduction
2)CSI Policy Design and Suitability for RD Analysis
3)Methods and Data
(1)Methods
(2)Data
4)Results
(1)Time Discontinuity
(2)Geographic Discontinuity
5)Conclusions
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
