Journal ArticleCurrent biology : CB · July 2024
Protected areas conserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions but might impede local economic growth. Understanding the global patterns and predictors of different relationships between protected area effectiveness and neighboring community economic growth ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Review of Economics and Finance · March 1, 2024
Green credit policy, a market-oriented green financial tool, aims to achieve simultaneous economic development and environmental protection. Utilizing china's 2012 green credit policy as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper employs a difference-in-differ ...
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Journal ArticleChina Economic Quarterly International · March 1, 2024
Using the Chinese Agriculture Technology Demonstration Center (ATDC) in Africa as a quasi-natural experiment, we examine the causal impacts of China's aid on crop production in Africa. The data pertain to African country-by-crop panel data from 2000 to 201 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Economics and Management · October 1, 2023
Severe air quality hurts human capital and threatens innovative outcomes. Using unique data containing 12.8 million patent applications in China, this paper examines the causal effect of particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5
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Journal ArticleJournal of Regional Science · June 1, 2023
Geographical distance constitutes friction in searching for research collaborators. Taking advantage of a quasinatural experiment featured by High-Speed Railway (HSR) lines in China, this paper employs the difference-in-differences model to identify the ca ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Economics · January 1, 2023
This paper addresses whether institutional investors drive firms’ innovation direction toward environmentally friendly technologies. The data pertain to comprehensive environmental patents filed by Chinese publicly-listed firms in the manufacturing and pub ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental and Resource Economics · August 1, 2022
Under the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) expects to facilitate the North-South knowledge spillovers for climate-friendly technologies. This paper examines the effect of this voluntary international climate cooperation on firm innovat ...
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Journal ArticleSustainable Production and Consumption · July 1, 2022
Emission trading schemes (ETSs) are regarded as cost-effective environmental regulatory policies; however, because of the loose carbon allowances, it is up for debate whether China's carbon emission trading scheme (CETS) plays a cost-effective role in carb ...
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Journal ArticleTechnological Forecasting and Social Change · March 1, 2022
To promote cleaner production, China launched nation-wide Cleaner Production Audit (CPA) program in 2004. This study examines the “weak” version of the Porter hypothesis while focusing on Chinese listed firms from 1990 to 2010. In this study, we provided e ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · December 2021
China has implemented an emission trading system (ETS) to reduce its ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining rapid economic growth. With low carbon prices and infrequent allowance trading, whether China's ETS is an effective approach for ...
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Journal ArticleSustainable Production and Consumption · October 1, 2021
This paper examines the impact of China's carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) on carbon emissions reduction and economic performance with a focus on the role of alternative allowance allocation. Using the industry-by-province panel data during the 2008-20 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Cleaner Production · January 10, 2021
This paper investigates whether the China ETS policy has achieved carbon emission reduction at the expense of economic development. Moreover, we are interested in unmasking the role of the institutional factors adopted by the ETS pilots in their ETS effect ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Economy · December 1, 2020
While prior literature on trade liberalisation and the environment has mostly focused on the macroeconomic ramifications, this study explores at the firm level whether and how changes of trade barriers brought about by China's accession to the WTO may impa ...
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Journal ArticleChina Economic Review · June 1, 2020
This paper examines the effect of water pollution regulation on polluters' exporting decisions and exporting structure. Using a detailed firm-by-product level dataset, we employ a difference-in-differenceds model to identify the causal relationship between ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Economics and Management · May 1, 2020
This article examines the role of a firm's internal network in determining plant shutdown decisions in response to environmental regulations. Using unique plant-level data for U.S. manufacturing industries from 1990 to 2007, we find evidence that, in respo ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Association Papers and Proceedings · 2018
China has launched seven regional pilots of emission trading scheme (ETS) to limit its carbon emissions. Taking advantage of the variations in the regional ETS pilots across regions and sectors and over time, we employ a difference-in-difference-in ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics · March 2016
This paper studies the firm‐level relationship among productivity, decision to export, and environmental performance. The emerging theoretical and empirical literature suggests that trade has an important role in determining firms' heterogeneity: i ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics · October 2011
An open‐economy equilibrium model is derived to investigate the effects of energy policy on the U.S. economy, with emphasis on corn‐based ethanol. A second best policy of a fuel tax and ethanol subsidy is found to approximate fairly closely the wel ...
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