Are China's trade interests overestimated? Evidence from firms' importing behavior and pollution emissions

LY He, G Huang - China Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Importing is an important driving force for a country's economic growth. While importing
promotes the expansion of economic scale, does it also lead the increase of pollution …

The curious case of the missing Chinese emissions

J Rodrigue, D Sheng, Y Tan - Journal of the Association of …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper characterizes the growth of sulfur dioxide emissions among Chinese
manufacturers during the WTO-accession period. By failing to account for contemporaneous …

The Reallocation Effect of Emissions Cap-and-Trade: Evidence from China

H Zhao, O Kwon, MQ Zhao - Available at SSRN 4092333, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper demonstrates a novel mechanism through which emissions cap-and-trade
mitigates production-side distortion vis-à-vis an emissions cap policy under a …