How does the low-carbon city pilot policy affect the synergistic governance efficiency of carbon and smog? Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Z Li, T Bai, C Tang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
In the context of the increasingly significant constraints of climate change and smog pollution
on high-quality economic development in China, it is important to explore the impact of a low …

All roads lead to Rome? Carbon emissions, pollutant emissions and local officials' political promotion in China

Q Jiang, P Tang - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

One-vote veto: the threshold effect of environmental pollution in China's economic promotion tournament

P Tang, Q Jiang, L Mi - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontier researches have gradually noticed that governing performance on both economic
development and environmental pollution can impact the political promotion of local officials …

Air pollution and economic growth under local government competition: Evidence from China, 2007–2016

S Jiang, X Tan, P Hu, Y Wang, L Shi, Z Ma… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study employs spatial simultaneous equations models with the Generalized Spatial
Three-Stage Least Squares (GS3SLS) method to evaluate the interrelationship between …

The impact and nonlinear relationship of low-carbon city construction on air quality: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Z Yang, Y Yuan, Y Tan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Many low-carbon policies have been implemented to realize China's “double carbon goals”.
Maximizing the synergistic effects of pollution reduction is very important. This study …

Supply-shock, demand-induced or superposition effect? The impacts of formal and informal environmental regulations on total factor productivity of Chinese …

Y Liu, Y She, S Liu, H Lan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Agricultural production struggles with low efficiency and high emissions. This urgently calls
for a collaborative effort between government and non-government organizations in …

Beyond environmental actions: How environmental regulations stimulate strategic-political CSR engagement in China?

P Tang, Q Jiang, C Wang - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Departing from conventional approaches of environmental actions in response to stricter
environmental regulations, our paper leverages the rent-seeking theory to propose that firms …

Government environmental regulation and corporate ESG performance: evidence from natural resource accountability audits in China

Y Yan, Q Cheng, M Huang, Q Lin, W Lin - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the increasing global concern for the ecological environment and sustainable
development, all countries have proposed environmental regulatory policies to improve the …

Does the pilot zone for green finance reform and innovation policy improve urban green total factor productivity? The role of digitization and technological innovation

Y Liu, Y Peng, W Wang, S Liu, Q Yin - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
High-quality urban finance and economic development are still facing high pollution, high
emissions, and low green production efficiency problems. However, as China's recent Pilot …

Accountability audit of natural resource, government environmental regulation and pollution abatement: An empirical study based on difference-in-differences model

Y Zhang, Q Zhang, H Hu, C Wang, X Guo - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
For many years, the lack of environmental supervision by local governments has been a
challenge for China's environmental governance. In the process of promoting green …