Beijing Blue: Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games and 2014 APEC Summit on Air Quality
Lirong Liu (lirong.liu@tamuc.edu) and
Asli Ogunc
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Lirong Liu: Texas A&M University-Commerce
Asli Ogunc: Texas A&M University-Commerce
Atlantic Economic Journal, 2023, vol. 51, issue 1, No 7, 83-100
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Abstract This paper examines the effects of interventions to reduce air pollution during two international events on air quality in Beijing and its neighbor cities. Air quality data were gathered from China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, meteorological data from the China Meteorological Administration and economic data from the China Statistical Yearbook. The paper uses fixed-effect panel data models to empirically evaluate air quality improvement in Beijing and other affected cities before, during, and after the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Results show substantial improvement in air quality in Beijing and neighboring cities during the two events. However, some of the air quality improvement achieved reverted within a year after the games and within a week after the summit. Furthermore, the improvement achieved during the summit completely reverted and air quality deteriorated severely five days after the summit. It is also found that air quality in China, at least in the cities included in this study, gradually improved over the past 15 years or so. The findings suggest that sustainable interventions and incentive-based programs to reduce emissions from industry production and traffic are the key to maintaining the air pollution reduction achieved during the events.
Keywords: 2008 Olympic Games; 2014 APEC Summit; Air pollution index (API); Air quality index (AQI); Air pollution; D62; Q53; Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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