Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities

The establishment of a carbon trading market is crucial for China to fulfil its carbon emission commitments through a market mechanism. As a market-based environmental regulation instrument, Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) has been attracted increasing attention worldwide, while the effect of ETS on l...

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Main Authors: Tao, Miaomiao, Failler, Pierre, Goh, Lim Thye, Lau, Wee Yeap, Dong, Hanghang, Xie, Liang
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spelling my.um.eprints.415772023-11-08T07:58:04Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/41577/ Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities Tao, Miaomiao Failler, Pierre Goh, Lim Thye Lau, Wee Yeap Dong, Hanghang Xie, Liang GE Environmental Sciences The establishment of a carbon trading market is crucial for China to fulfil its carbon emission commitments through a market mechanism. As a market-based environmental regulation instrument, Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) has been attracted increasing attention worldwide, while the effect of ETS on low-carbon economy efficiency (LEE) has not been fully investigated, thus inspiring us to fulfil this research gap. Using the panel data of China's 283 selected prefecture-level cities during 2006-2017, we adopted the difference-in-differences (DID) model, propensity-score-matched DID (PSM-DID) model, and the spatial DID model to model the direct and indirect effects of China's ETS on LEE at national, regional, and local (resource-based cities with different development stages) levels. The robust results yield that ETS directly and significantly improved China's LEE at the national level. Still, the LEE in ETS pilot region will increase by approximately 4.3% compared with untreated cities, while the spatial heterogeneity of this effect is captured at regional and local levels, which emphasises the necessity of a completed market construction and classified supervision. The results of this paper provide important insights for strengthening the policy design of a nationwide carbon market, and a reference point for other regions and countries, especially developing countries, in refining a carbon trading market. Springer 2022-08 Article PeerReviewed Tao, Miaomiao and Failler, Pierre and Goh, Lim Thye and Lau, Wee Yeap and Dong, Hanghang and Xie, Liang (2022) Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities. Mitigation and Adaption Strategies for Global Change, 27 (6). ISSN 1381-2386, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-022-10015-8 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-022-10015-8>. 10.1007/s11027-022-10015-8
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topic GE Environmental Sciences
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Tao, Miaomiao
Failler, Pierre
Goh, Lim Thye
Lau, Wee Yeap
Dong, Hanghang
Xie, Liang
Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities
description The establishment of a carbon trading market is crucial for China to fulfil its carbon emission commitments through a market mechanism. As a market-based environmental regulation instrument, Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) has been attracted increasing attention worldwide, while the effect of ETS on low-carbon economy efficiency (LEE) has not been fully investigated, thus inspiring us to fulfil this research gap. Using the panel data of China's 283 selected prefecture-level cities during 2006-2017, we adopted the difference-in-differences (DID) model, propensity-score-matched DID (PSM-DID) model, and the spatial DID model to model the direct and indirect effects of China's ETS on LEE at national, regional, and local (resource-based cities with different development stages) levels. The robust results yield that ETS directly and significantly improved China's LEE at the national level. Still, the LEE in ETS pilot region will increase by approximately 4.3% compared with untreated cities, while the spatial heterogeneity of this effect is captured at regional and local levels, which emphasises the necessity of a completed market construction and classified supervision. The results of this paper provide important insights for strengthening the policy design of a nationwide carbon market, and a reference point for other regions and countries, especially developing countries, in refining a carbon trading market.
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author Tao, Miaomiao
Failler, Pierre
Goh, Lim Thye
Lau, Wee Yeap
Dong, Hanghang
Xie, Liang
author_facet Tao, Miaomiao
Failler, Pierre
Goh, Lim Thye
Lau, Wee Yeap
Dong, Hanghang
Xie, Liang
author_sort Tao, Miaomiao
title Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities
title_short Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities
title_full Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities
title_fullStr Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities
title_full_unstemmed Quantify the effect of China's Emission Trading Scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: Evidence from China's 283 cities
title_sort quantify the effect of china's emission trading scheme on low-carbon eco-efficiency: evidence from china's 283 cities
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