Carbon pricing and enterprise productivity-The role of price stabilization mechanism

Jianlei Mo, Qiang Tu and Jianing Wang

Energy Economics, 2023, vol. 120, issue C

Abstract: Total factor productivity (TFP) is widely used to evaluate the development quality of the economy, and carbon price stabilization mechanism (CPSM) has been introduced to reduce the climate policy uncertainty. Whether and how the CPSM can affect TFP is an issue of great interest. Using a unique panel dataset of China's 494 listed firms in 8 carbon intensive sectors from 2006 to 2019, we examine the effectiveness of the CPSM in China's carbon emission trading scheme (ETS). The results show that the carbon ETS with CPSM which has clear price corridors can improve the TFP by 0.381, the ETS with CPSM which has no explicit price ceiling or floor could improve TFP by 0.198, while the ETS without CPSM has decreased TFP by 0.352. The heterogeneity analysis indicates that the CPSM is effective to improve the TFP in power generation, building materials, nonferrous metals, and chemical sectors. Moreover, in terms of mechanisms, the CPSM can improve the TFP through promoting technological innovation and easing financing constraint. Our findings confirm the effectiveness of CPSM on the improvement of firm-level TFP and provide some key implications on how to design an effective CPSM.

Keywords: Carbon emission trading scheme; Policy uncertainty; Carbon price stabilization mechanism (CPSM); Total factor productivity (TFP); Difference-in-difference (DID) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106631

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