This paper re-estimates the environmental Kuznets curve over the period 1971–2010 in China. To this end, it uses the unit root tests with one structural break and the autoregressive-distributed lag (ARDL) estimations. The special role is given to the impacts of export product quality and...

The current study contributes to the banking literature by testing the joint impacts of competition and profitability on different types of risk (credit risk, liquidity risk, capital risk and insolvency risk) of a sample of Chinese commercial banks over the period 2003-2015 under an ordinary...