As Chinese economy enters the stage of high-quality development from the stage of rapid
growth, the economic vitality that relies on the demographic dividend and capital dividend is …

Low-carbon pilot (LCP) policy aims to not only achieve economic development but also
address climate change problems in China. With a difference-in-difference (DID) approach …

Conventional wisdom argues that environmental regulation can trigger both structural
adjustments and enhanced innovation. We test this conjecture by using a difference-in …

Even though reverse logistics has existed as long as forward logistics, growing social
concern for the environment has caused reverse logistics activities to become a critical …

It is well known that due to their static efficiency economists prefer marketbased instruments
of environmental policy such as emission taxes and tradable permits, to command and …

In this article, we compare two kinds of environmental regulations—emissions taxes and
green R&D subsidies—in private and mixed-duopoly markets in the presence of R&D …

Using Chinese provincial data from 2000 to 2016, this paper investigates the effect of
informal environmental regulation (IER) on industrial structure upgrading. We find that IER in …

We compare a Cournot with a Bertrand duopoly in a differentiated mixed market when both
emission tax and privatization policies are used together. We find that the optimal emission …

This article investigates the strategic environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) of
polluting firms in the presence of eco-firms. When the firms decide to adopt ECSR …

Under what conditions will a carbon tax encourage environmental innovation? Can a
regulator design an optimal environmental policy to reduce emissions and to promote clean …