 Has the pilot carbon trading policy improved China's green total factor energy efficiency?Chaobo Zhou and Shaozhou Qi Energy Economics, 2022, vol. 114, issue C Abstract: This work empirically studies the effect of a carbon trading pilot policy (CTPP) on green total-factor energy efficiency (GTFEE) by using 280 China’ prefecture-level cities from 2006 to 2017 as sample and adopting a difference-in-difference (DID) method. Results show that CTPP can significantly improve GTFEE after using an instrumental variable to overcome the endogenous problem. The impact mechanism test shows that CTPP can improve GTFEE by increasing the technological innovation level of enterprises. A heterogeneity test shows that the effect of CTPP on improving GTFEE in non-old industrial-based cities and non-resource-based cities is less than that in old industrial-based cities and resource-based cities. Compared with other carbon trading pilot areas, the Beijing carbon market is more prominent in improving GTFEE. The pilot areas' economic penalty exerts a positive effect on GTFEE in the pilot areas, if the pilot areas are strict in their reward and punishment systems for performance, then the situation will be conducive to the improvement of GTFEE. Keywords: Carbon trading pilot policy; Green total factor energy efficiency; Difference-in-difference method (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:114:y:2022:i:c:s0140988322004078 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106268 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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