Transportation has long been shown to produce real impacts on productivity, urbanization, and economic growth, among others, companying with which innovation might take place. However, extant literature provides limited evidence on the companion innovation hypothesis of transportation...

This paper uses a unique large-size data set from China's most developed areas to examine the innovation impacts of environmental regulations. Reduction mandates on designated pollutants between the 10th and the 12th Five-Year Plans (2001–2015) are explored to construct spatial and temporal...

This paper uses a unique firm-level data set from China’s two most developed regions, the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and the Pearl River Delta (PRD), to examine the innovation impacts of environmental regulations. Air and water pollution reduction plans under the total emissions control policy...