Browsing by Author "Cui, Jingbo"

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    Assessment of carbon leakage by channels: An approach combining CGE model and decomposition analysis
    (Energy Economics, 2018-08) Tan, Xiujie; Liu, Yu; Cui, Jingbo; Su, Bin
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    Can CDM projects trigger host countries’ innovation in renewable energy? Evidence of firm-level dataset from China
    (Energy Policy, 2020-04) Cui, Jingbo; Liu, Xi; Sun, Yongping; Yu, Haishan
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    Carbon Pricing Induces Innovation: Evidence from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots
    (AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018) Cui, Jingbo; Zhang, Junjie; Zheng, Yang
    China has launched seven regional pilots of emission trading scheme (ETS) to limit its carbon emissions. Taking advantage of the variations in the regional ETS pilots across regions and sectors and over time, we employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) approach to evaluate the effect of ETS on low-carbon innovation at the firm level. Using patent application data of publicly-listed firms in China between 2003 and 2015, we find that the ETS pilots induced innovation in low-carbon technologies. The more active pilots—measured by carbon price and turnover rate of allowance trading—are associated with more intense low-carbon innovation.
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    Global Trends and Drivers of the Invention of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Technology
    (2024-04-26) Wang, Yining
    The role of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology in achieving global and national climate targets hinges on a timely deployment of the technology in the most demanding sectors and regions. Innovation serves to drive down the cost of different technologies and improve the technological maturity for a successful deployment. Despite the current disparity between the demanding sectors and regions of the technology and their abatement cost, there is limited knowledge in the global trend and drivers of the innovation of CCUS technology across different application sectors. By refining global CCUS patent data into 6 technological categories and 11 application sectors using machine learning algorithm (random forest classification model), this paper aims to 1) Quantitively investigate a 30-year evolution of the invention and diffusion landscape of CCUS technologies, and 2) Employ a difference-in-difference model to examine the effect of carbon pricing on CCUS invention. We find a closing gap in the sectoral and regional disparity of CCUS technologies, characterized by a shift towards sector-specific technologies and a growth of invention in emerging markets. Global cooperation of CCUS innovation is highly concentrated within the leading countries, especially for nascent technologies. The sectoral and regional disparity is mainly bridged through diffusion from experienced and leading innovation countries to large emitters with high path dependency on fossil fuel. There exists a positive and significant effect of carbon pricing and path dependence on fossil fuel on CCUS invention, particularly for sectors that take CCUS as an abatement technology. However, the iron and steel sector remain far from demand-pull incentives, and may require further efforts in public R&D and financial incentives to direct resources towards technological innovation.
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    Have China's provinces achieved their targets of energy intensity reduction? Reassessment based on nighttime lighting data
    (Energy Policy, 2019-05) Zhang, Ping; Shi, XunPeng; Sun, YongPing; Cui, Jingbo; Shao, Shuai
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    Impacts of Governors’ Early-life Heatwave Experiences on Local Environmental Performance
    (2023-04-28) Li, Jiahuan
    As a main outcome of climate change, heatwave events have increasingly caused both physical and psychological trauma to human beings. This research investigates the mental influence of early-life heatwave experiences on the personalities of top managers and the subsequent impact on organizational performance. Specifically, the study examines whether public sector governors with early-life heatwave exposure promote local environmental outcomes during their tenure. Employing an ordinary least-squares (OLS) approach, the empirical analysis utilizes two unique datasets comprising the biographical experiences of 4018 municipal governors over the past 50 years and the pollution levels of 288 cities between 2000 and 2016. This study provides clear and robust evidence that early-life heatwave exposure significantly reduces jurisdictional CO2 emissions by 1.1% and PM2.5 pollution by 2.1%, despite variations in heatwave criteria. These findings supplement the top management literature and challenge the current belief of the public unawareness of climate change.
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    Impacts of US biodiesel mandates on world vegetable oil markets
    (Energy Economics, 2017-06) Cui, Jingbo; Martin, Jeremy I
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    Induced clean technology adoption and international trade with heterogeneous firms
    (The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2017-11-17) Cui, Jingbo
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    Productivity, Export, and Environmental Performance: Air Pollutants in the United States
    (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016-03) Cui, Jingbo; Lapan, Harvey; Moschini, GianCarlo
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    The effectiveness of China's regional carbon market pilots in reducing firm emissions.
    (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021-12) Cui, Jingbo; Wang, Chunhua; Zhang, Junjie; Zheng, Yang
    China has implemented an emission trading system (ETS) to reduce its ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining rapid economic growth. With low carbon prices and infrequent allowance trading, whether China's ETS is an effective approach for climate mitigation has entered the center of the policy and research debate. Utilizing China's regional ETS pilots as a quasi-natural experiment, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of ETS on firm carbon emissions and economic outcomes by means of a matched difference-in-differences (DID) approach. The empirical analysis is based on a unique panel dataset of firm tax records in the manufacturing and public utility sectors during 2009 to 2015. We show unambiguous evidence that the regional ETS pilots are effective in reducing firm emissions, leading to a 16.7% reduction in total emissions and a 9.7% reduction in emission intensity. Regulated firms achieve emission abatement through conserving energy consumption and switching to low-carbon fuels. The economic consequences of the ETS are mixed. On one hand, the ETS has a negative impact on employment and capital input; on the other hand, the ETS incentivizes regulated firms to improve productivity. In the aggregate, the ETS does not exhibit statistically significant effects on output and export. We also find that the ETS displays notable heterogeneity across pilots. Mass-based allowance allocation rules, higher carbon prices, and active allowance trading contribute to more pronounced effects in emission abatement.
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    The effects of exports on facility environmental performance: Evidence from a matching approach
    (The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2017-10-03) Cui, Jingbo; Qian, Hang
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    The Impacts of Carbon Pricing on Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from the Regional Carbon Market Pilots in China
    (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021-03-10) Cui, Jingbo; Zhang, Junjie; Zheng, Yang
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    Welfare Impacts of Alternative Biofuel and Energy Policies
    (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011-10) Cui, Jingbo; Lapan, Harvey; Moschini, GianCarlo; Cooper, Joseph