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2023
Using China’s regional carbon market pilots as a natural experiment, we examine the impacts of the emission trading system (ETS) on firms’ innovation and competitiveness. We show that the ETS directs innovation towards climate-friendly technologies ...
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2022
We study the effect of information provision on avoidance behavior, using China’s roll-out of air pollution information as a quasi-natural experiment. With a unique dataset of high-frequency mask purchase transactions, our difference-in-differences ...
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2015
Climate change shifts the distributions of a set of climatic variables including temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind speed, sunshine duration, and evaporation. Previous studies have predominantly focused on temperature and precipitation only ...
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2014
Fine particle pollution is a major public health concern in China. This paper assesses China's potential population exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub> at the subdistrict level, the smallest census unit with public information. Using both grou ...
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2013
This paper uses unique data on daily air pollution concentrations over the period 2001-2010 to test for manipulation in self-reported data by Chinese cities. First, we employ a discontinuity test to detect evidence consistent with data manipulation ...
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2013
The international carbon market, specifically the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) created by the Kyoto Protocol, is an important contributor to the breathtaking growth of renewable energy in China. Ever since its debut, it has been at the center ...
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2012
This article provides new evidence that fiscal decentralization has supported economic development by incentiving cities to provide more sewage infrastructure. As a result of the 1994 tax reform, Chinese cities retained different shares of their va ...
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2010
The bioeconomic impacts of spatial fisheries management hinge on how fishing vessels reallocate their effort over space. However, empirical studies face two challenges: heterogeneous behavioral responses and unobservable resource abundance. This pa ...
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2010
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows industrialized countries to comply with the Kyoto Protocol by using carbon offsets from developing countries. There are two puzzles within this carbon market: additionality (the proposed activity would n ...
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2007
Fisheries management must manage people in order to manage fish. In this sense, understanding fishing behavior is the cornerstone of effective fisheries policy. However, the latency of fish stocks is a major obstacle in empirical studies. This pape ...
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2007
Structural models can assess the effectiveness of fishery management prospectively and retrospectively. However, when only fishery-dependent data are available, structural econometric models are highly nonlinear in the parameters, and maximum likel ...
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2007
Economics of the fishery has focused on the wastefulness of common pool resource exploitation. Pure open access fisheries dissipate economic rents and degrade biological stocks. Biologically managed fisheries also dissipate rents but are thought to ...
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