This study analyzes the potential impacts of a national emission trading scheme on provincial economies in China of meeting China's emission reduction pledges, the Nationally Determined Contributions announced under the Paris Agreement. The study developed a multiregional, multisectoral,...

There is an urgent need to mitigate global warming for all countries around the world. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has announced a series of energy and climate policy targets in contributing its efforts towards meeting the ambitious goals in the Paris Agreement and the newly pledged...

We examine the impacts of China’s unconventional emission trading system (ETS), a rate-based tradable performance standard (TPS), on firm competitiveness. Our analysis takes advantage of the quasi-natural experiment created by China's regional ETS pilots and firm-level data on innovation and...

Crude oil prices, weather changes, and carbon prices are closely related, but little research investigates their dynamic relationship. Studying how crude oil prices and weather changes dynamically affect carbon prices is significant to investors and producers. Taking carbon prices in Hubei and...