Yanchao Feng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3722103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yanchao Feng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yanchao |
| FAMILY NAME | Feng |
| SIGNATURE | FENG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhengzhou University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8240-0715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing the global impact of artificial intelligence on energy resilience: The role of financial inclusion
How does environmental regulation promote green technology innovation in enterprises? A policy simulation approach with an evolutionary game
To vividly illustrate the dynamic interactions between government and enterprise in China, a non-cooperative evolutionary game is employed. Simulations are conducted to examine the effectiveness of environmental regulations in promoting green technology involving multiple policy instruments for yielding the ideal outcome. In particular, numerical simulations are introduced to explore the asymptotic stability of various evolutionary stabilization …
Reducing carbon emission at the corporate level: Does artificial intelligence matter
Redressing labor factor mismatch in Chinese resource-based cities: Does digital economy matter
The digital economy serves as a key driver in reshaping economic development by altering the supply structure of market factors and influencing labor resource allocation. Based on panel data from 2011 to 2019 for resource-based prefecture-level cities in China, this study empirically examines the impact of the digital economy on labor factor mismatch using both static and dynamic panel models. The findings reveal that the digital economy signific…
Explaining and modeling the impacts of inclusive finance on CO2 emissions in China integrated the intermediary role of energy poverty
Inclusive finance has the potential to impact CO 2 emissions resulting from energy activities by influencing regional economic behavior. To explore this relationship, this research makes use of panel data covering 30 Chinese provinces between 2004 and 2017. Through the utilization of empirical methods, including the dynamic panel model, the DIFF-GMM model, the mediating effect model, and the moderating effect model, the study examines the directi…
How does digital economy affect the industry chain resilience in China
Based on the annual reports and input–output table data of Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2020, this paper measures the level of digital transformation of enterprises by using the keyword word frequency index in the annual reports of listed companies and reveals the impact and mechanism of digital transformation of enterprises on industry chain elasticity by using a panel data model. Additionally, it provides a theoretical explanation of h…
Assessing the moderating effect of environmental regulation on the process of media reports affecting enterprise investment inefficiency in China
To achieve the triple goals of digesting excess capacity, making effective investments, and accelerating green governance, it is important and necessary to comprehensively examine the intrinsic relationship between media reports, environmental regulation, and enterprise investment inefficiency. To this end, this study employs multiple econometric models to investigate the intrinsic relationship between them by using the data of listed companies i…
How does the new environmental protection law affect the environmental social responsibility of enterprises in Chinese heavily polluting industries
In the new era of seeking for cleaner production and comfortable life, it is important and necessary to improve environmental social responsibility, especially for the heavily polluting industries. Against this backdrop, the Chinese government put forward the new environmental protection law in 2015, while the effect of it on the environmental social responsibility still remains as a black box, which forms the initial motivation of this essay. Tr…
Identifying the antecedents for the green transformation of resource-exhausted cities in China
To address the issue of green transformation in resource-exhausted cities, this study employs the Policy Modeling Consistency (PMC) index model to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of support policies execution at both central and local levels, covering 16 policies at the different administrative levels. Meanwhile, utilizing the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method, the study investigates the interaction…
Identifying the multiple nexus between geopolitical risk, energy resilience, and carbon emissions: Evidence from global data
Does digital global value chain participation reduce energy resilience? Evidence from 49 countries worldwide
How does digital transformation relieve the employment pressure in China? Empirical evidence from the national smart city pilot policy
The impact of digital transformation on employment has been increasingly noticed by the academic community, while the internal mechanism still remains as a black box, especially in terms of specific pilot policy, such as the national smart city pilots policy in China. Based on the city-level and firm-level panel data, we investigate the impact of China’s national smart city pilot on the employment pressure of urban job seekers using difference-in…
The impacts of high-speed railway on environmental sustainability: Quasi-experimental evidence from China
With growing concerns over resource depletion and environmental degradation, the role of high-speed railways in fostering a transition towards sustainable energy sources has gained prominence. Against this background, we treat the opening of high-speed railways as a quasi-natural study, analyze data from Chinese industrial enterprises and 285 prefecture-level cities to investigate the impact of high-speed railways on environmental sustainability,…
How does urbanization affect public health? New evidence from 175 countries worldwide
Urbanization is an essential indicator of contemporary society and a necessary historic stage in the industrialization of all countries. Thus, we explore the impact of urbanization on public health using the OLS estimation and a two-way fixed effect model based on annual panel data from 175 countries from 2000 to 2018. This paper also addresses potential endogeneity issues and identifies causal relationships using the coefficient stability tests,…
Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection
Central environmental protection inspection (CEPI) is a major institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, but its effectiveness in improving air quality is still unclear. However, the effectiveness of CEPI is of great significance and can be regarded as an important reference for deepening the reform of environmental governance system in China. This article takes the CEPI as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the regression dis…
How does national development zone policy affect carbon emissions in China? New evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
The expansion of China's development zones has made great contributions to economic development, as well as provided practical guidance for other developing countries to implement development zone policies. However, in the context of global advocacy of low carbon, literature about how the development zone policy affect carbon emissions is poor, especially in China at the urban level. Therefore, this study takes China's development zone policy as …
How does the air pollution prevention and control action plan affect sulfur dioxide intensity in China
As a part of China's efforts to mitigate and control air pollution in key areas, the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was implemented in 2013, and several regulatory measures were introduced. Based on the data from 271 prefecture-level cities between 2008 and 2018, the difference-in-differences model is used to explore the effect of it on sulfur dioxide intensity in our study, and several significant results are as follows: (1) Th…
Identifying impacts of industrial co-agglomeration on carbon emissions: Evidence from China
Based on panel data of 285 cities in China at the prefecture level and above from 2005 to 2020, this paper aims to study the nexus between industrial co-agglomeration and carbon emissions from dual perspectives including space and time. It adopts multiple approaches including a dynamic general method of moment, panel quantile regression model, panel threshold model, and dynamic spatial Durbin model. The non-spatial empirical results support the e…
Climate policy uncertainty and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China
Despite the notable impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on capital markets, there has been a lack of research on how it affects corporate investment efficiency (CIE). To address this gap, using data from 2,605 non-financial listed companies from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2009 and 2020, this study identifies the effect of the CPU on the CIE. The results show that the CPU adversely affects the CIE in all industries, a…
The Impact of Financial Literacy on Household Health Investment: Empirical Evidence from China
Based on the 2019 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data, this paper used factor analysis to measure the level of financial literacy of surveyed householders and used the Probit model and the negative binomial model to test the impact of financial literacy ( FL ) on household health investment ( HHI ). The results show that: (1) FL is an essential influencing factor in increasing participation in HHI , and householders with a higher level of …
The heterogeneous drivers of CO2 emissions in China’s two major economic belts: New evidence from spatio-temporal analysis
Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Carbon Emissions and Its Key Influencing Factors in the Yellow River Economic Belt of China from 2006 to 2019
The Yellow River Economic Belt (YREB) performs an essential function in the low-carbon development of China as an important ecological protection barrier, and it is of great importance to identify its spatio-temporal heterogeneity and key influencing factors. In this study, we propose a comprehensively empirical framework to conduct this issue. The STIRPAT model was applied to determine the influencing factors of carbon emissions in the YREB from…
How Do Environmental Technology Standards Affect the Green Transformation? New Evidence from China
During the period of high-quality development in China, environmental regulations have been regarded as powerful exogenous forces, especially for accelerating the green transformation of the manufacturing industry. Treating the first implementation of cleaner production industry standard policies in 2003 as a quasi-natural experiment, and employing the difference-in-differences ( DID ) model, this paper discusses the impacts of environmental tech…
Research on the Impacts of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Productivity in China: The Moderating Roles of Technical Change and Efficiency Change
Due to the publicly owned resource attributes of the ecological environment, the treatment and governance of the environment should be guided by governments, which are mainly represented as environmental regulations. However, whether environmental regulations affect green productivity and what effects heterogeneous environmental regulations have on green productivity are still implicit. In addition, the moderating roles of technical change and ef…
Ecological Livability Assessment of Urban Agglomerations in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
This paper proposes the "citizen-ecology-city" evaluation framework for urban ecological livability theoretically and studies the ecological livability of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) empirically. In addition, we analyze the factors of urban ecological livability in a spatial dynamic panel model. The results are as follows. (1) Ecological livability levels of Macao and Hong Kong are significantly higher than the nine citie…
Reducing carbon emission at the corporate level: Does artificial intelligence matter
Redressing labor factor mismatch in Chinese resource-based cities: Does digital economy matter
The digital economy serves as a key driver in reshaping economic development by altering the supply structure of market factors and influencing labor resource allocation. Based on panel data from 2011 to 2019 for resource-based prefecture-level cities in China, this study empirically examines the impact of the digital economy on labor factor mismatch using both static and dynamic panel models. The findings reveal that the digital economy signific…
Effects of Air Pollution Control on Urban Development Quality in Chinese Cities Based on Spatial Durbin Model
With the rapid development of urbanization, industrialization, and motorization, a large number of Chinese cities have been affected by heavy air pollution. In order to promote the development quality of Chinese cities, mixed regulations to control air pollution have been implemented under the lead of government. The principal component analysis and efficacy coefficient method are used to estimate urban development quality, according to the panel…
Research on the Impacts of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Productivity in China: The Moderating Roles of Technical Change and Efficiency Change
Due to the publicly owned resource attributes of the ecological environment, the treatment and governance of the environment should be guided by governments, which are mainly represented as environmental regulations. However, whether environmental regulations affect green productivity and what effects heterogeneous environmental regulations have on green productivity are still implicit. In addition, the moderating roles of technical change and ef…
Ecological Livability Assessment of Urban Agglomerations in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
This paper proposes the "citizen-ecology-city" evaluation framework for urban ecological livability theoretically and studies the ecological livability of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) empirically. In addition, we analyze the factors of urban ecological livability in a spatial dynamic panel model. The results are as follows. (1) Ecological livability levels of Macao and Hong Kong are significantly higher than the nine citie…
Assessment of the Carbon Emission Reduction Effect of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan in China
In this study, we propose an integrated econometric framework incorporating the difference-in-differences model, the propensity-score-matching difference-in-differences model, and the spatial difference-in-differences model to explore the effect of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan on per capita carbon emission in China at the national, regional, and administrative levels. Contradictory results are supported under different eco…
Ecological Civilization Demonstration Zone, Air Pollution Reduction, and Political Promotion Tournament in China: Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Using the ecological civilization demonstration zone as a quasi-natural experiment, this study has explored the effect of it on air pollution in China by employing the difference-in-differences model and the spatial difference-in-differences model, and further tested the political promotion tournament in China by employing the binary logit model. The results show that the ecological civilization demonstration zone has basically and effectively re…
How Do Chinese National Scenic Areas Affect Tourism Economic Development? The Moderating Effect of Time-Limited Rectification
Based on panel data on 124 prefecture-level and above cities from 2003 to 2018, this study investigated the impact of CNSAs on tourism economic development and the moderating effect of time-limited rectification by comprehensively using the quasi-DID model, the static spatial Durbin model, and the dynamic spatial Durbin model. The results showed that the impact of CNSAs on tourism economic development has a heterogeneous characteristic in terms o…
Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Carbon Emissions and Its Key Influencing Factors in the Yellow River Economic Belt of China from 2006 to 2019
The Yellow River Economic Belt (YREB) performs an essential function in the low-carbon development of China as an important ecological protection barrier, and it is of great importance to identify its spatio-temporal heterogeneity and key influencing factors. In this study, we propose a comprehensively empirical framework to conduct this issue. The STIRPAT model was applied to determine the influencing factors of carbon emissions in the YREB from…
How Do Environmental Technology Standards Affect the Green Transformation? New Evidence from China
During the period of high-quality development in China, environmental regulations have been regarded as powerful exogenous forces, especially for accelerating the green transformation of the manufacturing industry. Treating the first implementation of cleaner production industry standard policies in 2003 as a quasi-natural experiment, and employing the difference-in-differences ( DID ) model, this paper discusses the impacts of environmental tech…
How does digital transformation relieve the employment pressure in China? Empirical evidence from the national smart city pilot policy
The impact of digital transformation on employment has been increasingly noticed by the academic community, while the internal mechanism still remains as a black box, especially in terms of specific pilot policy, such as the national smart city pilots policy in China. Based on the city-level and firm-level panel data, we investigate the impact of China’s national smart city pilot on the employment pressure of urban job seekers using difference-in…
The impacts of high-speed railway on environmental sustainability: Quasi-experimental evidence from China
With growing concerns over resource depletion and environmental degradation, the role of high-speed railways in fostering a transition towards sustainable energy sources has gained prominence. Against this background, we treat the opening of high-speed railways as a quasi-natural study, analyze data from Chinese industrial enterprises and 285 prefecture-level cities to investigate the impact of high-speed railways on environmental sustainability,…
How does urbanization affect public health? New evidence from 175 countries worldwide
Urbanization is an essential indicator of contemporary society and a necessary historic stage in the industrialization of all countries. Thus, we explore the impact of urbanization on public health using the OLS estimation and a two-way fixed effect model based on annual panel data from 175 countries from 2000 to 2018. This paper also addresses potential endogeneity issues and identifies causal relationships using the coefficient stability tests,…
Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection
Central environmental protection inspection (CEPI) is a major institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, but its effectiveness in improving air quality is still unclear. However, the effectiveness of CEPI is of great significance and can be regarded as an important reference for deepening the reform of environmental governance system in China. This article takes the CEPI as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the regression dis…
How does national development zone policy affect carbon emissions in China? New evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
The expansion of China's development zones has made great contributions to economic development, as well as provided practical guidance for other developing countries to implement development zone policies. However, in the context of global advocacy of low carbon, literature about how the development zone policy affect carbon emissions is poor, especially in China at the urban level. Therefore, this study takes China's development zone policy as …
How does the air pollution prevention and control action plan affect sulfur dioxide intensity in China
As a part of China's efforts to mitigate and control air pollution in key areas, the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was implemented in 2013, and several regulatory measures were introduced. Based on the data from 271 prefecture-level cities between 2008 and 2018, the difference-in-differences model is used to explore the effect of it on sulfur dioxide intensity in our study, and several significant results are as follows: (1) Th…
Identifying impacts of industrial co-agglomeration on carbon emissions: Evidence from China
Based on panel data of 285 cities in China at the prefecture level and above from 2005 to 2020, this paper aims to study the nexus between industrial co-agglomeration and carbon emissions from dual perspectives including space and time. It adopts multiple approaches including a dynamic general method of moment, panel quantile regression model, panel threshold model, and dynamic spatial Durbin model. The non-spatial empirical results support the e…
Climate policy uncertainty and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from China
Despite the notable impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on capital markets, there has been a lack of research on how it affects corporate investment efficiency (CIE). To address this gap, using data from 2,605 non-financial listed companies from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2009 and 2020, this study identifies the effect of the CPU on the CIE. The results show that the CPU adversely affects the CIE in all industries, a…
The Impact of Financial Literacy on Household Health Investment: Empirical Evidence from China
Based on the 2019 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data, this paper used factor analysis to measure the level of financial literacy of surveyed householders and used the Probit model and the negative binomial model to test the impact of financial literacy ( FL ) on household health investment ( HHI ). The results show that: (1) FL is an essential influencing factor in increasing participation in HHI , and householders with a higher level of …
The heterogeneous drivers of CO2 emissions in China’s two major economic belts: New evidence from spatio-temporal analysis
Explaining and modeling the impacts of inclusive finance on CO2 emissions in China integrated the intermediary role of energy poverty
Inclusive finance has the potential to impact CO 2 emissions resulting from energy activities by influencing regional economic behavior. To explore this relationship, this research makes use of panel data covering 30 Chinese provinces between 2004 and 2017. Through the utilization of empirical methods, including the dynamic panel model, the DIFF-GMM model, the mediating effect model, and the moderating effect model, the study examines the directi…
How does digital economy affect the industry chain resilience in China
Based on the annual reports and input–output table data of Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2020, this paper measures the level of digital transformation of enterprises by using the keyword word frequency index in the annual reports of listed companies and reveals the impact and mechanism of digital transformation of enterprises on industry chain elasticity by using a panel data model. Additionally, it provides a theoretical explanation of h…
Assessing the moderating effect of environmental regulation on the process of media reports affecting enterprise investment inefficiency in China
To achieve the triple goals of digesting excess capacity, making effective investments, and accelerating green governance, it is important and necessary to comprehensively examine the intrinsic relationship between media reports, environmental regulation, and enterprise investment inefficiency. To this end, this study employs multiple econometric models to investigate the intrinsic relationship between them by using the data of listed companies i…
How does the new environmental protection law affect the environmental social responsibility of enterprises in Chinese heavily polluting industries
In the new era of seeking for cleaner production and comfortable life, it is important and necessary to improve environmental social responsibility, especially for the heavily polluting industries. Against this backdrop, the Chinese government put forward the new environmental protection law in 2015, while the effect of it on the environmental social responsibility still remains as a black box, which forms the initial motivation of this essay. Tr…
Identifying the antecedents for the green transformation of resource-exhausted cities in China
To address the issue of green transformation in resource-exhausted cities, this study employs the Policy Modeling Consistency (PMC) index model to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of support policies execution at both central and local levels, covering 16 policies at the different administrative levels. Meanwhile, utilizing the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method, the study investigates the interaction…
Identifying the multiple nexus between geopolitical risk, energy resilience, and carbon emissions: Evidence from global data
Does digital global value chain participation reduce energy resilience? Evidence from 49 countries worldwide
Economics (21 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (21 works) · Business (18 works) · China (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Natural resource economics (11 works) · Panel data (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Econometrics (8 works)