Until now, studies on the environmental effect of foreign investment opening (FIO) in service sector are still blank. Actually, development of service sector is significant force for promoting economic modernization for the countries, thus development of service sector is extremely significant...

In the context of deglobalization and Sino-US trade friction, trade policy uncertainty significantly increases. How does trade policy uncertainty affect firms’ pollution emissions? In this study, we incorporate energy, pollution and trade policy uncertainty into Melitz’s (2003) framework,...

Given China's notorious air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution, a detailed understanding of socio-economic costs of air pollution and potential impacts of its abatement policies is crucial for policy-making if sustainable development is to be realized. To provide...

We propose a new method called the multifractal asymmetric detrended cross-correlation analysis method (MF-ADCCA) to investigate the asymmetric cross-correlations in nonstationary time series that combine the multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis (MF-DCCA) and asymmetric detrended...

As an important kind of export mode, processing trade has significant differences relative to other export modes. Do processing-trade firms emit less pollutants? Does processing trade transformation affect firms' pollution emissions? Based on the Melitz's (2003) framework, we construct a...