To investigate whether the digital economy mitigates carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), this study first constructs a comprehensive digital economy index, and then employs provincial panel data covering the period 2006-2017 in China. We then investigate the mediating effects. The results indicate...

In this study, we critically analyze the dynamic effect of low-carbon city policy (LCCP) on carbon lock-in for the Chinese cities. For this purpose, a balanced panel dataset of 283 Chinese prefectural cities between 2003 and 2017 and the difference in differences (DID) method are utilized....

East Asia is the world's main natural gas importing region, in which China became the world's largest gas importer in 2018. However, China's natural gas imports are subject to a high premium level, which increases the gas import cost and negatively impacts China's energy structure transformation...

This paper investigates factors behind the growth of carbon dioxide emissions over the 35 years between 1980 and 2015 in more than 100 countries, using an index decomposition technique (the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index). The results are further confirmed using an econometric technique (the...

Improving the quality of foreign investment to help functional upgrading of the value chain is an important starting point for China's manufacturing industry to achieve low-carbon and high-quality development. Based on the data of the functional activities of each manufacturing greenfield...