As an alternative carbon pricing tool to carbon taxes, carbon emission trading systems (ETS) combine market incentives with policy targets. Inevitably, ETS markets are linked to domestic and international political environment. Yet, there is a lack of research on the relationship between...

This paper investigates the relationship between the three forms of social capital, i.e., social norms, social network, and trust, on the effectiveness of land use policies. Both long-term and short-term policy outcomes are considered in the proposed analytical framework. Benefiting from a...

The landscape of China's rural land market has been changed by several significant land right reforms since 1970s. It is always of great interest to both the government and the public to gauge the effectiveness of these reforms. We address this question by investigating the impact of a recent...