The regulated price mechanism in China's power industry has attracted much criticism because of its incapability to optimize the allocation of resources. To build an "open, orderly, competitive and complete" power market system, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented marketization...

This study investigates the pass-through effect induced by coal price fluctuations on the Chinese economy 2007–2011 based on a non-competitive input–output model. Three scenarios with different domestic tariff regulation alternatives, i.e., Actual Regulation (AR), No Regulation (NR), and...

The regulated price mechanism in China’s power industry has attracted much criticism because of its incapability to optimize the allocation of resources. To build an “open, orderly, competitive and complete” power market system, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented...

A comprehensive survey of 1450 households in 26 Chinese provinces was undertaken in 2012 to identify the characteristics and potential driving forces of residential energy consumption in China. The survey covers six areas: household characteristics, dwelling characteristics, kitchen and home...

Recently China has issued the Double-Reduction (DR) policy, which is an unprecedented revolution in education. Exploiting the timing variation across cities, we show that exposure to this policy led to less reliance on private tutoring and more importance attached to family education, leading to...