China has embarked on an ambitious and unprecedented programme of energy reform and climate change mitigation. Yet the … motivations for this important shift remain unclear. This paper surveys key central government documents and articles by China …'s leading energy academics to investigate the ideas influencing China's new energy and climate policies. Three key ideas in …

Since the early 1990s, the air pollution level in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA) has arguably been one of the … pollution impacts human health, particularly among children, in JMA. Test results confirm that air pollution, represented by the …

The concept underpinning the Environmental Kuznets Curve is that economic growth results in reduced pollution in the …

We explore the links between migration of labour and location specific (urban) pollution, suggesting a sense in which … pollution can be welfare improving. In a conventional Harris-Todaro model of urban-rural migration, individuals migrate so as to … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support …

In this paper, we aim to understand how monetary policy is conducted in China and what the main sources of fluctuations … in China’s business cycle are. To this end, we extend a standard New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium … rule and employ a Bayesian estimation strategy using Chinese data. We find that the People’s Bank of China conducts …

This paper is motivated by the popular view that the surge in China’s foreign exchange reserves is due to a … the reserve build-up in China during 1998Q4-2011Q4. A substantial problem is that theory is consistent with employing two … in China’s case. The results suggest that mercantilism accounts for less than 10 percent of reserve accumulation …

This paper examines the effectiveness of China's indigenous R&D investment and technological innovation to curb its … that: 1) While China's indigenous R&D efforts play a significant role to curb carbon emissions, sole dependence on R&D may … be far from sufficient to achieve China's pledged Copenhagen climate target with complementary policies being required to …