China and India. Most projections show energy demand growing as much or more in absolute terms to 2040 than previous multi …

technical efficiency. We examine how industrial firms responded to China's severe power shortages in the early 2000s. Fast …

Since 2005, the Chinese government has engaged in an ambitious effort to move China's energy system away from coal and … towards more environmentally friendly sources of energy. However, China's investment in coal power has accelerated sharply in …. In this paper, we ask why China engaged in such a pronounced investment boom in coal power in the mid-2010s. We find the …

China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global … environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity … government and the public are placing pressure on China's urban leaders to mitigate externalities. Such "pro-green" incentives …

, including to China's notoriously-poor air quality. We analyze China's official pollution monitor data and account for the large … the important exception of NO2, China's air quality improvements in 2020 are smaller than we should expect near the … are found for the six provinces neighboring Hubei. We conclude that COVID-19 had ambiguous impacts on China's pollution …

products, aggravating environmental damage. China's rapidly growing trade and serious environmental degradation appear to be no … exception. However, much of China's trade growth is attributable to the international fragmentation of production. This kind of … trade could be cleaner, if fragmented production occurs in cleaner goods, or if China specializes in cleaner stages of …

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that …