Postgraduate research students

In 2005, the Chinese government proposed quantitative emission reduction targets for the major air pollutant (SO2) in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), which is characterized by strict emission control targets and enforcement. Meanwhile, the Chinese government also used the achievement of emission reduction targets by local officials as an essential promotion indicator. For political incentives, almost all provinces and municipalities completed their emission reduction targets on schedule by 2010, and the policy achieved significant reductions in the total amount of major pollutants. Have stringent environmental regulations contributed to environmental improvement? If so, to what extent? How does environmental improvement affect China's economic development? What are the main driving forces for the effect?

To further explain the above issues, I propose to use the implementation of the 11th Five-Year Plan sulfur dioxide reduction policy in 2006 as a quasi-natural experiment to discuss the effectiveness of environmental regulation, including desirable outcomes such as reducing pollution and energy consumption, improving economic performance, total factor productivity, foreign direct investment, and trade by using the difference-in-difference (DID) and difference-in-difference-in-difference (DDD) methods.

Sheng, D. and Bu, W. (2022) The Usage of Robots and Enterprises' Pollution Emissions in China. The Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics, 39(09), pp, 157-176. (DOI: 10.13653/j.cnki.jqte.2022.09.008)

Bu, W. and Sheng, D. (2022) Intellectual Property Protection and New Product Export of Chinese Firms: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Agency. Nankai Economic Studies, 7, pp, 42-60. (DOI: 10.14116/j.nkes.2022.07.003)

Bu, W. and Sheng, D. (2022) Adjustment of Encouraging Industrial Policy and Enterprises' Pollution Emission: Analysis Based on Pollution Control Behavior and Resource Reallocation Effect. Industrial Economics Research, 6, pp, 43-57. (DOI: 10.13269/j.cnki.ier.2022.06.008)

Bu, W. and Ren, S. (2022) Does Economic Growth Target Constraint Put Pressure on Green Energy Efficiency? Evidence from China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp, 1-17. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24316-7)

Wang, W., Yang, X., Cao, J., Bu, W., Abd, A. D., Tomiwa, S. A., Azer, D., and Ren, S. (2022) Energy Internet, Digital Economy, and Green Economic Growth: Evidence from China. Innovation and Green Development, 1(2), 100011. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.igd.2022.100011)

Rinat, Z. and Bu, W. (2023) How does Digital Finance Affect Industrial Transformation? Journal of Information Economics, 1(1), pp, 18-30. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.58567/jie01010002)

Bu, W. and Ren, S. (2023) Government's Green Grip: Does Industrial Policy Improve Firm Environmental Performance? Managerial and Decision Economics, 1–17. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.3861)

Ren, S., Du, M., Bu, W., and Lin, T. (2023) Assessing the impact of economic growth target constraints on environmental pollution: Does environmental decentralization matter? Journal of Environmental Management, 6(336), 117618. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117618)

Sheng, D., Bu, W., and Wang Y. (2023) Stronger Intellectual Property Protection and Chinese Export Product Quality Upgrading —Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Agency. Journal of International Trade, 4, pp, 107-123.（DOI:10.13510/j.cnki.jit.2023.04.001）

Jiang, D., and Bu, W. (2023) Anti-Trust Law and Technological Innovation of Chinese Science and Technology Enterprises: Micro Analysis of Enterprises with Different Market Positions. Journal of Quantitative & Technological Economics, 40(07):27-47. (DOI:10.13653/j.cnki.jqte.20230529.003)

Bu, W. and Sheng, D. (2024) Regional Open Policy and Firms' Pollution Emissions: Evidence from the Estabishment of Chinese Development Zones. Finance and Trade Research, 35(01):19-32. (DOI:10.19337/j.cnki.34-1093/f.2024.01.002)

Bu, W. and Jiang, D. (2024) Intellectual Property Protection and Chinese Firms' Markup: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Agency. Nankai Economic Studies, (02): 141-159.  (DOI:10.14116/j.nkes.2024.02.008)

• Dr Neil Munro
• Dr Arjunan Subramanian

Project Establishment and Funding Plan for Special Topics on Economic Thought of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the Xi Jinping New Era in School of Economics, Nankai University, Antitrust and Enterprise Technology Innovation, 2021-2022.

Project Establishment and Funding Plan for Special Topics on Economic Thought of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the Xi Jinping New Era in School of Economics, Nankai University, (NKJJXYHKT2022-007), Artificial Intelligence Application and Enterprise Pollution Emission, 2022-2023. 

Tianjin Research Innovation Project for Postgraduate Students, Tianjin, (2022BKY036), Research on Anti-Trust and Enterprise Innovation Behavior, 2023-2024.

China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarship, 2022-2024

A Study of the Income Gap in China between Urban and Rural Residents and the Regional gap and Its Influencing Factors, 2017 Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics, Nanchang, 2017.

Intellectual Property Protection, Product Life-cycle and Export Product Structure of Chinese Firms: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Filing Agency, 10^th International Investment Forum, Zhuhai, 2021.

Intellectual Property Protection and New Product Export of Chinese firms: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Filing Agency, 2021 Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics, Zhengzhou, 2021.

Intellectual Property Protection and New Product Export of Chinese firms: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Filing Agency, Economics Sub-Forum of the 3rd Tianjin University Doctoral Academic Forum, Tianjin, 2021.

Stronger Intellectual Property Protection and Chinese Export Product Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Filing Agency, The second National Postdoctoral Forum on Quantitative and Technical Economics, Tianjin, 2021.

Intellectual Property Protection and Chinese Enterprises’ Markup: Evidence from the Establishment of Municipal Patent Agency, 2022 Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics, Dalian, 2022.