Climate change induced by carbon emissions has received extensive global attention.
However, with the ever-increasing environmental attention from governments, whether firms …

Existing studies are mixed about whether smart city construction (SCC) can alleviate urban
environmental pollution. This study takes three batches of smart city pilots implemented by …

In China, economic growth targets significantly affect the economic behavior of local
governments. This paper analyzes a dataset of the economic growth targets from 230 city …

Chinese-style fiscal decentralization and vertical fiscal imbalance may cause substantial
incentive distortion, which is not beneficial for public environmental governance. Based on …

Carbon emissions and pollutant emissions have gradually been considered in the
performance evaluation of local officials to tackle the dual challenges China faces in climate …

Our paper focuses on how firms strategically respond to environmental regulations on
environmental actions. Given the greater discretion in environmental information disclosure …

The conflict between industrial development and environmental pollution is global. This
study quantitatively analyzes the temporal and spatial changes, spatial effects and …

Chinese officials play an important role in air pollution control. This paper used a sample of
282 prefecture-level cities in China to discuss the impact of promotion incentives of officials …

Abstract The implementation of Digital China and Made in China 2025 strategies has
brought guiding the rapid development of digital infrastructure (DI) and industrial ecology …

Based on city-level panel data spanning 2008 to 2021, this study investigates the impact of
government environmental attention (GEA) on green total factor productivity (GTFP). The …