We analyze the real effects of the environmental regulation on technological innovation using a sample of Chinese firms. We leverage the Air Pollution Prevention Policy as a quasi-natural experiment that is plausibly exogenous to the firms’ innovation policy and use the difference in...

In this paper, we investigate whether and how environmental justice influences climate mitigation and adaptation technologies. We exploit the staggered establishment of environmental courts in China as a quasi-natural experiment that strengthened environmental justice and authoritative...