EfD in China

The Environmental Economics Program in China (EEPC) has three main tasks: building capacity of rigorous economic analysis into environmental policy in China, policy outreach, and graduate education that emphasizes systematic training in modern environmental economics.

Most recent publications

• china | Policy design Has The Centralized Environmental Governance Regime Worked in China? Scholars have suggested that in China centralized environmental policymaking may be decoupled from idiosyncratic local implementation, and thus have questioned the outcomes. This paper fills a gap in the literature on China’s environmental governance by assessing the effects of the centralized regime on outcomes and diagnosing institutional deficiencies along the following three dimensions: structure, penetration to multiple actors in society, and persistence in efforts taken. Wanxin Li, Jintao Xu, Hui He (2010). Has The Centralized Environmental Governance Regime Worked in China? Working paper, Environmental Economics Program in China.

• china eeu sweden | Behavior ec. It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree Carlsson, F. and P. Qin (2010) It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China, Journal of Socio-Economics 39, 180-186.

• china Industrial and Aggregate Measures of Productivity Growth in China We estimate productivity growth for 33 industries covering the entire Chinese economy using a time series of input-output tables covering 1982-2000. J. Cao, M. Ho, D. Jorgenson. R. Ren, L. Sun, X. Yue (2009), "Industrial and Aggregate Measures of Productivity Growth in China", Review of Income and Wealth, 55(1), 485-513.

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