Environmental Decentralization, Heterogeneous Environmental Regulation, and Green Total Factor Productivity—Evidence from China

Optimal governmental decentralization for environmental regulation

Threshold Effects of Environmental Regulation on Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China

This paper examines the threshold effects of environmental regulation on China’s total factor energy efficiency (TFEE), by selecting the technological innovation (as measured by patents) as threshold variable. Using the SBM (Slacksbased Measure)-undesirable model, we first estimate TFEE of China's 30 provinces from 2000 to 2011 under the constraints of energy conservation and emission reduction...

Environmental Concerns, Environmental Policy and Green Investment

Environmental regulators often use environmental policy to induce green investment by firms. However, if an environmental policy fails to exert a long-run effect on regulating the economic agents' behavior, it may be more reasonable to think of the firm as the leader in the game, since the investment in green technology is usually a strategic decision. In this paper, we consider a three-stage S...

Transboundary Spillovers and Decentralization of Environmental Policies

Most US federal environmental policies allow states to assume responsibility for implementation and enforcement of regulations; states with this responsibility are referred to as “authorized” or having “primacy.” Although such decentralization may have benefits, it may also have costs with pollution spillovers across states. This paper estimates these costs empirically by studying the free ridi...

Impact of Environmental Quality Variables and Socio-Economic Factors on Human Health: Empirical Evidence from China

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the foremost gas, emanated from human activities, and the best-known greenhouse gas, contributing to global warming, thus its negative effect on human health cannot be disregarded. The current paper investigates the relation between environmental quality variables, socio-economic factors, and human health from 1960 to 2014 in China, using Auto Regressive Distribution Lag...