The effect of green fiscal policy on green technological innovation: evidence from energy saving and emission reduction fiscal policy.

The "National Comprehensive demonstration of Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Fiscal Policy" (ESER policy) is a green fiscal policy to facilitate China's green sustainable development. Green sustainable development is facilitated by green technological innovation. Thus, evaluating the influence of the ESER policy on green technological innovation is essential.

The outgoing audit of natural resources assets and enterprise productivity: New evidence from difference-in-differences-in-differences in China.

Despite increasing evidence documenting the role of the outgoing audit of natural resources (OANRA) in environmental governance and enterprise innovation, little is known about its impact on enterprises' total factor productivity (TFP). To address this question, we treat the OANRA policy launched in 2014 in China as a quasi-natural experiment. We adopt a difference-in-differences-in-differences (DDD) method that exploits three-dimensional variations: city (i.

China's efforts towards carbon neutrality: Does energy-saving and emission-reduction policy mitigate carbon emissions?

To achieve green and low-carbon development, the Chinese government has selected pilot cities to implement the energy-saving and emission-reduction (ESER) policy in three batches since 2011. So far, there has been no systematic evidence on whether this policy can mitigate carbon emissions. To identify the causal impact of the ESER policy on carbon emissions, we exploit variations in the timing of this policy across cities and assemble a panel dataset of China's 284 cities from 2003 to 2019.