The Chinese central government has adopted a nationwide administrative allocation policy to reduce carbon and sulfur emissions. Using the ZSG-DEA (Zero-Sum Gain Data Envelopment Analysis) approach, this paper evaluates and compares the emission efficiencies of China's provincial CO2 and SO2, and...

This paper investigates the impact of foreign trade on China’s pollution emissions using an input-output model. General y speaking, as exports are more pollution-intensive than imports, foreign trade helps reduce China’s emissions. Given the huge surplus of trade in goods and declines in the...