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Strategic environmental regulation and inbound foreign direct investment in the People's Republic of China
Huang, Bihong; Yang, Zhuoxiang; Yu, Yantuan - 2020
stringency and enforcement, this paper studies the spatial distribution of inbound FDI in manufacturing sectors by accounting for …
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Policy Uncertainty Reduces Green Investment
Wang, Mengyu; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Zhang, Hong - 2023
Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
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Air pollution quotas and the dynamics of internal skilled migration in Chinese cities
Yu, Bo; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2020
This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five-Year Plan on internal movements of high-skilled labour across Chinese prefecture cities. Using data on migration flows calculated through changes in Hukou status, this study suggests...
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Copenhagen and beyond : reflections on China's stance and responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010 - This version: March 2010
China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations at Copenhagen, the accusations previously always targeted on the U.S. To put such a criticism into perspective, this paper provides some reflections on China's stance and...
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Carbon emissions trading in China : the evolution from pilots to a nationwide scheme
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2015
, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China opts for emissions trading, rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513963
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Crossing the river by feeling the stones : the case of carbon trading in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2015
market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China turns to … design, implementation, enforcement and compliance issues related to China's carbon trading pilots and their first …
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China's carbon market : development, evaluation, coordination of local and national carbon markets and common prosperity
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2022
To achieve the commitments to both carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, China should focus on those policies of significant impact on emissions reduction at the lowest cost. Launching the national carbon market with the power generation sector is a good start point in this direction. Since its...
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Enforcement of pollution levies in China
Lin, Liguo - In: Journal of Public Economics 98 (2013) C, pp. 32-43
This paper investigates how industrial plants react to inspections conducted by environmental authorities under the pollution levy (taxation) regulation in China. Contrary to studies in the United States and Canada (Magat and Viscusi, 1990; Laplante and Rilstone, 1996), and previous studies in China...
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Bureaucratic Politics and China's Anti-Monopoly Law
Zhang, Angela Huyue - 2015
dynamics affect the outcome of antitrust enforcement in China. It has two major findings. First, bureaucratic politics have a … that antitrust enforcement in China is a highly pluralistic process involving officials from various central ministries and … and tacit rules of the Chinese bureaucracy shape the enforcement outcome of China's Anti-Monopoly Law …
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Have Government Regulations Improved Workplace Safety? A Test of the Asynchronous Regulatory Effects in China's Coal Industry, 1995-2006
Shi, Xunpeng - 2011
Problem: Empirical studies on the effectiveness of workplace safety regulations are inconclusive. This study hypothesizes that the asynchronous effects of safety regulations occur as regulation needs time to become effective. Safety regulations will work first by reducing the most serious...
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