Since the 9th Five Year Plan (FYP) period (1996-2000), the Chinese central government began to adopt the total emissions control (TEC) policy, a target-based environmental regulation which set emission reduction targets for designated pollutants. The policy became highly binding for local...

This paper uses a unique firm-level data set from China’s two most developed regions, the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Pearl River Delta (PRD), to examine the innovation impacts of environmental regulations. Air and water pollution reduction plans under the total emissions control policy...

This paper uses a unique large-size data set from China's most developed areas to examine the innovation impacts of environmental regulations. Reduction mandates on designated pollutants between the 10th and the 12th Five-Year Plans (2001–2015) are explored to construct spatial and temporal...