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; Industrial Policy ; Financial Institutions ; Government Decentralization ; China …China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local …
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are the major characteristics in the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution in China, which implies …
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Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China's LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China's LCC development …
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China's emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population … size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the … responsibilities. At the same time, environmental stresses caused by China's energy and resources demands have become increasingly …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the … environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and …
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. Based on the balanced panel data from2014 to 2018 from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)and by means of the fixed effects …
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findings, we recommend that China should support the expansion of high-speed rail in order to reduce carbon emissions in a …
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This paper proposes an operationally simple and easily generalizable methodology to incorporate climate change damage uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region-specific factor by extracting damage distribution...
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We critically review the Kyoto Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures for addressing the threat of global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between different types of uncertainty and stock returns of the renewable energy and the oil & gas sectors. We use the quantile regression approach developed by Koenker and d'Orey (1987; 1994) to assess which uncertainties are the potential...
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