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As a core policy tool for promoting green economic transformation and high-quality development, green finance has significantly optimized the allocation of resources for corporate green innovation, thereby inevitably influencing the efficiency of gre...

Improving urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE) is an effective way to increase social, economic, and ecological benefits and achieve regional sustainable development goals. This study takes three batches of low-carbon pilot cities construction as...

Urban vitality, a multifaceted construct, is influenced by economic conditions and urban structural characteristics, and can significantly be impacted by public health emergencies. While extensive research has been conducted on urban vitality, prevai...

This article estimates the impact of a policy change on an event probability in a difference-in-differences hazard model using four estimators. We examine the error distributions of the estimators via a simulation experiment with twelve different sce...

Policy makers around the world are turning to smart city projects in an effort to address the challenges of population growth, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Previous studies have evaluated the effect of smart city projects on a...

In this study, we propose an integrated econometric framework incorporating the difference-in-differences model, the propensity-score-matching difference-in-differences model, and the spatial difference-in-differences model to explore the effect of t...

The assessment of the relationship between the innovative city pilot policy (ICPP) and urban resilience is crucial for enhancing cities’ ability to foresee, endure, and recover from various disruptive events. Despite the widespread implementati...

Facing climate risks has become a common problem for mankind and a topic of great importance for the Chinese government. To thoroughly implement the overall requirements for the construction of an ecological civilization and effectively improve the c...

As an important driving force of China’s economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) may be affected by China’s low-carbon pilot policy. Therefore, this paper regards the low-carbon pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment, and uses the differ...

Using panel data from 282 prefecture-level and above cities in China, this study employs a difference-in-differences (DID) model to examine the impact of the National Sustainable Development Plan for Resource-Based Cities on carbon emission efficienc...

Land titling, a critical land institution reform aimed at enhancing tenure security, serves as a pivotal policy instrument to strengthen rural laborers’ mobility intentions. Leveraging a balanced panel dataset from the 2014 and 2016 China Labor...

Many metropolitan areas around the world aim to control urban growth with a view to achieving efficiency and containing urban problems. Among many urban growth policy tools, the green belt (GB) policy is known as the most rigid and strongest. However...

To mitigate the effects of climate change, carbon emission trading policy (CET) has emerged as a crucial policy instrument for nations. As the largest developing country, China confronts the pressing need to steer industrial restructuring and foster...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital economy has developed rapidly. The airborne nature of COVID-19 viruses has attracted worldwide attention. Therefore, it is of great significance to analyze the impact of the digital economy on particulate mat...

Noise pollution poses a significant hazard to humans by disrupting the maintenance of the quiet environment that is thought to promote innovation. In this study, the causal relationship between traffic noise and innovation was explored using four mod...

Facing informal environment regulation carried out by the environmental protection organizations, we study and judge its inhibitory effect on air pollution and the acting path. Based on panel data of 285 cities in China from 1998 to 2018, a time-vary...

This paper studies the impact of carbon trading policies on breakthrough low-carbon technological innovation through a difference-in-differences model based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China. Through descriptive statistics, regression analys...

Climate change has become the most severe challenge among current global crises, with harsh environmental conditions profoundly impacting inclusive green growth. This study employs data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the levels of inclusive gr...

Economic development and environmental conservation are two important challenges for China. A series of initiatives including Eco-province (EP) policies have been taken to achieve sustainable development by the Chinese government. Increasing concerns...

Emission trading schemes are effective methods to realize the sustainable development of society by coordinating economic development and environmental protection. While green total factor productivity (GTFP), an effective evaluation index of green p...

China’s dual carbon goals necessitate green transformation across industries, with STAR Market enterprises serving as crucial drivers of technological innovation. Existing studies predominantly focus on traditional sectors, overlooking dynamic...

Carbon emissions trading policy is an important tool to achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. In order to explore the effectiveness of carbon emissions trading policy, this paper adopts the difference-in-differences model to analyze the...

With the expansion of the scale of China’s economy and the acceleration of urbanization, energy consumption is increasing, and environmental degradation and other problems have arisen. In order to solve such prominent problems, China proposed t...

The construction of tourist attractions has become an important manifestation of local performance and the image of tourist destinations, as well as an important means for local governments to promote economic development. However, the causal relatio...

This study uses the data of 280 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2008 to 2019 as the research samples, and the DID (difference-in-difference) model to explore the negative impact of the Next-Generation Internet Demonstration City Policy (NGIDCP)...

The construction of national parks has a profound impact on the production and life of surrounding farmers. Based on the survey data of 354 farmers around the Mount Wuyi National Park, this paper uses the method of constructing a difference-in-differ...

Public data openness refers to the practice whereby governments make the raw data collected, generated, and managed during public administration freely available to society through unified platforms for public development and use. As a government-led...

Macro policies such as the Paris Agreement are key external drivers of research and development (R&D) planning. Measuring their impact and reflecting the resulting technological changes in the R&D process are essential for sustaining competit...

In the context of global climate change, the low-carbon city pilot policy has become an important strategy to promote green development. Based on the panel data from 257 prefecture-level and above cities in China, this study utilized the Super-Effici...

Water shortage has become a serious problem in the world, and low water efficiency is the key to industrial and agricultural production and sustainable economic development. Based on the data of 30 provinces (municipalities) in China from 2010 to 201...

Digitalization represents a pivotal global development trend and serves as a significant force propelling economic and social transformation. This manuscript uses the global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) model to estimate green total factor produc...

Corporate environmental responsibility (CER) is an important component of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, and an important carrier for enterprises to disclose environmental protection information. Based on the corporate micro data,...

The environmental effects of green finance policies involve complex systemic interactions across multiple levels, yet existing studies often adopt fragmented analytical approaches. Drawing on the multi-level perspective (MLP), this study conceptualiz...

While opening-up promotes regional economic development, its impact on the residents’ health level cannot be ignored. Based on provincial data of China from 2009 to 2020, the Gini Coefficient and Theil Index are used to analyze the regional ine...

This paper uses the provisions of the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan for industrial and mining enterprises as a quasi-natural experiment and constructs a difference-in-differences (DID) model to study its effect on increasing the q...

Improving the energy efficiency of enterprises is one of the key means to solve the problem of energy shortage. It is of great significance to investigate how environmental information disclosure (EDI) promotes the green total factor energy efficienc...

As a judicial environmental regulation strategy designed to promote environmental protection, environmental courts have drawn substantial interest. However, whether they can effectively balance the economy and the environment requires further explora...

Based on the quasi-natural experiment of sewage charges standard reform, this paper adopts a staggered difference-in-difference model to empirically investigate the effect of environmental regulation on firms’ export sophistication and the mech...

Green agriculture is the future of agricultural development. However, there has been little attention paid to the relationship between market-oriented reform of agricultural subsidies and green agricultural development. Based on the quasi-natural exp...

This study examines the impact of upgrading provincial development zones on urban carbon emission reduction in China, a vital policy instrument for achieving the nation’s dual objectives of economic growth and green development under the &ldquo...

County economies are essential drivers of national economic development, acting as critical engines for growth and regional equilibrium. This study uses the National Rural E-commerce Comprehensive Demonstration policy, initiated by the Ministry of Fi...

This study examines the impact of environmental judicial reinforcement on green technology innovation, constructing a progressive difference-in-differences model using firm- and city-level panel data from 2006 to 2019 and taking the successive establ...

To promote economic development, an imbalance in urban–rural development has been caused by a policy of favoring urban areas in every county. Recently, breaking the “urban–rural dual structure” and emphasizing urban–rura...

As global climate change intensifies, achieving the dual goals of economic efficiency and low-carbon development has become a pressing challenge. Using panel data for 269 Chinese cities from 2010 to 2021, based on their carbon emission efficiencies (...

In the context of global climate governance, green technology innovation is essential for urban sustainable development. To address the limitations of traditional linear econometric models, this study investigates the impact of the National Innovativ...

The objective of this study is to clarify the impact and mechanism of transfer payment policies on the resource dependence of resource-depleted cities. Based on the panel data of 113 prefecture-level resource-based cities from 2006 to 2017, this stud...

The land price reflects the supply and demand relationship in the land market and plays an important role in regulating land use. Improving land auction rules is of great significance for avoiding abnormal fluctuations in the land market and promotin...

Taking China’s emission trading system (ETS) pilot in 2013 as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper uses the difference-in-differences (DID) models to study whether the regional pilot ETS can promote technological innovation in enterprises. In...

When formulating international economic cooperation agreements, policymakers should consider not only their economic promotion effects but also their impact on green development. This paper is an examination of whether the Belt and Road Initiative co...

In January 2013, a dense haze covered 1.4 million kilometers of China and affected more than 800 million people. Air pollution in China had become a serious threat to the daily lives of people. The State Council of China enacted the “Air Pollut...