This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of university spatial expansion in local innovation activities in the context of new campus construction in China. By treating the spatial expansion of the university as a quasi-experiment, we construct a unique geocoded dataset linking...

This paper investigates the impact of urban form variation on residents’ happiness in Chinese cities. Using the matched data of the European Space Agency Global Land Cover dataset and the Chinese administrative map, we firstly measure the urban form index of Chinese cities between 2000 and...

This paper aims to examine the role of the subway network, a typical transportation way within the urban area, on innovation and knowledge diffusion. Based on the difference-in-difference strategy and spatial analysis, we use 1332 newly opened stations in China from 2000 to 2013 as a...

A pricing reform in Turkey increased the residential electricity tariff by more than 50 percent in 2008. The reform, aimed at encouraging energy efficiency and private investment, sparked considerable policy debate about its potential impact on household welfare. This paper estimates a short-run...

Emission permit trading is a centerpiece of the Kyoto Protocol which allows participating nations to trade and bank greenhouse gas permits under the Framework Convention on Climate Change. When market conditions evolve stochastically, emission trading produces a dynamic problem, in which...

The Government of the Republic of Belarus (GoB) plans to increase district heating tariffs to cost-recovery levels and gradually phase out subsidies, replacing them with social assistance programs. Residential DH tariffs in Belarus are currently at roughly 10-21 percent of cost-recovery levels....