Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policies, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs...

The New Crown epidemic has had a serious impact on China's economy, which is on an uphill climb, and it is of great importance to predict the impact of this epidemic on China's economy and the recovery of China's economy after the epidemic. This paper constructs a prediction model based on the...

This study aims to investigate the macroeconomic effects of China’s climate policy uncertainty (CCPU) shock. To this end, we construct a novel CCPU index, which is found to coincide with key domestic climate policy changes. By using the time-varying VAR method, we show that CCPU has a...