Market segmentation and urban CO2 emissions in China: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region

Journal of Environmental Management
Shuai ShaoLili Yang

Abstract

As the largest CO2 emitter in the world, China plays a crucial role in global CO2 emission reduction. Meanwhile, as the largest developing country, China gives top priority to economic development, especially balanced regional development. In order to narrow regional development inequality, China has formulated some economic zone plannings to weaken market segmentation. However, existing studies pay little attention to the impacts of intra-national trade barrier on CO2 emissions within China. This is the first study to investigate the impact of market segmentation on urban CO2 emissions in China, taking the Yangtze River Delta region as a sample that is the most developed region with a high economic integration in China. Using a city-level panel data set during the period of 1995-2014 and the fixed effect model, we verify the nonlinear relationship between market segmentation and urban CO2 emissions measured by three indicators, i.e., total CO2 emissions, per capita CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions per unit of GDP. We also use the generalized method of moments (GMM) to control the endogeneity problem, and further adopt the threshold regression model to check the robustness of the baseline results. The results show that there is ...Continue Reading

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