Our paper examined the pollution leakage by the environmental regulation applied in 2+26 cities which are Beijing and surrounding Beijing area. Based on daily emission data, we empirically find that leakage is possibly happened among the firms in the same industry. We also use the example of...

We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to public or private citizen appeals treatments when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First, public appeals to the regulator through social media...