Innovations for sustainable development: Moving toward a sustainable future

BS Silvestre, DM Ţîrcă - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
The view that innovation is a key driver for sustainability is widely accepted among scholars,
industry professionals, and government representatives. This is due to the fact that …

Access to urban green space in cities of the Global South: A systematic literature review

A Rigolon, MHEM Browning, K Lee, S Shin - Urban Science, 2018 - mdpi.com
This review examines disparities in access to urban green space (UGS) based on
socioeconomic status (SES) and race-ethnicity in Global South cities. It was motivated by …

Innovation in emerging economies: Research on the digital economy driving high-quality green development

D Ma, Q Zhu - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper measures the level of urban digital economy and high-quality green
development in China, seeking to reveal the mechanisms and influences of the digital …

The effects of low-carbon pilot policy on technological innovation: Evidence from prefecture-level data in China

C Zhu, CC Lee - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

A more credible approach to parallel trends

A Rambachan, J Roth - Review of Economic Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes tools for robust inference in difference-in-differences and event-study
designs where the parallel trends assumption may be violated. Instead of requiring that …

Environmental regulation, green technology innovation, and industrial structure upgrading: The road to the green transformation of Chinese cities

K Du, Y Cheng, X Yao - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental regulation can facilitate the economy's green transformation through two
channels: green technology innovation and industrial structure upgrading. However, the …

Carbon trading and regional carbon productivity

B Liu, CJ Ding, J Hu, Y Su, C Qin - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to examine how carbon trading policies impact total factor carbon
productivity and subsequently provide recommendations for sustainable regional …

Can low-carbon city construction reduce carbon intensity? Empirical evidence from low-carbon city pilot policy in China

S Zeng, G Jin, K Tan, X Liu - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) is an innovative initiative for promoting low-carbon
transformation and green development in China, which is of great practical significance for …

Low-carbon city pilot and carbon emission efficiency: Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Y Yu, N Zhang - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper identifies the causal effect of low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy on carbon
emission efficiency (CEE). Specifically, we first develop a general nonconvex metafrontier …

Greening through finance?

H Fan, Y Peng, H Wang, Z Xu - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how green credit regulation affects firms' loan conditions and their
economic and environmental performance. In a simple theoretical model, with strengthened …