Whilst a plethora of literature has viewed technological progress as one of the critical
influencing factors in relation to energy consumption and CO 2 emissions, little effort has …

Using a balance panel dataset of 278 Chinese cities, this study is the first to employ a spatial
difference-in-differences (SDID) approach to investigate both the direct and indirect effects of …

The impact of China's low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) program–a climate policy applied at the
city level–on low-carbon innovation has yet to be studied. The LCCP program intends to …

Cities play a pivotal role in promoting carbon emission reduction. Since 2010, the Chinese
government has developed several batches of low-carbon city pilots continuously. In this …

This study systematically explored the effect of smart city policy (SCP) on urban green total-
factor productivity (GTFP) in China. We first measured the urban GTFP using the Luenberger …

Digital finance is a mode of financial innovation conducive to raising the level of urban
innovation. Using city-level panel data on 268 Chinese cities from 2011 to 2019, this paper …

The new-type urbanization strategy proposed by the Chinese government is human-
centered urbanization, which emphasizes the coordination of population, economy, society …

E-commerce has emerged through digital platforms and Internet construction as an
important way to achieve low-carbon development in China. To evaluate the mitigation effect …

Since the policy design for carbon emission reduction must consider both the efficiency and
the cost of emission reduction, improvement in carbon total factor productivity (CTFP) is …

The proposal of dual carbon goals indicates that China's overall ecological environment
protection will focus on carbon reduction in the future. Our concern is whether the existing …