This paper estimates the linkages among total Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions, total GDP and energy efficiency using China's provincial panel data from 2002 to 2015. We investigate total emissions rather than per capita emissions or ambient concentrations, since it is total emissions that the...

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the impact of the main driving forces underling CO2 and SO2 emissions across political regimes. Depending on the air pollutant and the political regime, the relationship between per capita GDP and emissions levels is either linear or inverted-U...

The Chinese central government has adopted a nationwide administrative allocation policy to reduce carbon and sulfur emissions. Using the ZSG-DEA (Zero-Sum Gain Data Envelopment Analysis) approach, this paper evaluates and compares the emission efficiencies of China's provincial CO2 and SO2, and...

This paper provides an overhaul of the contribution of exports to industrial sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in Chinese cities. My estimation strategy exploits the import demand shocks of export destination markets (net of their demand for Chinese products) as a plausibly exogenous source of...