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Management Practices and Climate Policy in China

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  • Soo Keong Yong
  • Ulrich J. Wagner
  • Peiyao Shen
  • Laure de Preux
  • Mirabelle Muûls
  • Ralf Martin
  • Jing Cao

Abstract

We investigate how management quality moderates the impact of carbon pricing on Chinese firms. Based on interviews with managers and lead engineers at manufacturing firms in Hubei and Beijing, we construct a novel index of climate-change-related management practices and link it to firm data from various sources. We document higher average productivity and more green innovation among firms that are well managed according to the index. In an event study of the introduction of regional cap-and-trade schemes for CO2, we analyze how management quality interacts with treatment. While treated firms reduced coal consumption more than control firms, this effect is statistically significant only for well-managed firms. The reduction could have been 25% greater if badly managed firms had been well managed. Our study highlights that good management practices, in particular energy monitoring, enhance the effectiveness of market-based climate policies by enabling firms to rationally comply with those policies.

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  • Soo Keong Yong & Ulrich J. Wagner & Peiyao Shen & Laure de Preux & Mirabelle Muûls & Ralf Martin & Jing Cao, 2024. "Management Practices and Climate Policy in China," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press, vol. 11(5), pages 1065-1100.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jaerec:doi:10.1086/729013
    DOI: 10.1086/729013
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    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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