1780 papers
Using comprehensive micro-data from Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper provides causal evidence that participation in global value chains significantly increases firm-level demand for skilled labor, with a one-standard-deviation rise in GVC participation boosting the skilled labor share by approximately 10 percent.
Using nighttime light data and a difference-in-differences design on 695 Chinese listed firms from 2012 to 2025, this study demonstrates that Central Environmental Protection Inspections causally enhance corporate ESG performance and green innovation through increased investment and eased financing constraints, though these effects exhibit an inverted-U trajectory and diminishing marginal returns over time.
Using a staggered-adoption panel of Chinese listed firms and a novel text-based AI measure, this study finds that artificial intelligence adoption significantly reduces the within-firm labor share by 1.18 percentage points, driven by a decoupling of wages from productivity and rising markups, particularly in labor-intensive firms.
Using double machine learning on a large panel of Chinese firms, this study reveals that extreme climate risk significantly reduces corporate energy intensity through a "forced adaptation" channel driven by green innovation and efficiency improvements, an effect that is substantially underestimated by traditional linear methods and exhibits a sharp threshold response.
Using quasi-experimental evidence from Chinese listed firms, this study demonstrates that digital mergers and acquisitions significantly enhance new quality productive forces by facilitating R&D leapfrogging and shifting patenting into new technological domains, provided the technological distance between acquirer and target remains within an optimal range to avoid integration traps.
This paper investigates the impact of digitalization on bilateral services trade flows in East Asia and finds that digitalization is positively associated with increased trade between these countries.
This paper analyzes data from 58 countries to demonstrate that capital and energy act as complements in production, implying that ensuring efficient and renewable energy supplies is essential for sustaining long-term economic growth.
This study demonstrates that transportation infrastructure, particularly road networks, significantly enhances corporate energy efficiency and reduces pollution emissions by optimizing factor allocation, improving energy consumption structures, and inducing technological innovation, with effects varying across regions and industries.
Using social network analysis on provincial data from 2004 to 2022, this study maps China's low-carbon energy consumption network to identify distinct regional roles and reveals shifting socio-economic drivers, including the increasing influence of technology and urbanization alongside the weakening effects of environmental regulation and industrialization.
This systematic literature review, grounded in the resource-based view, concludes that transitioning to renewable energy significantly enhances the performance and environmental sustainability of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in West Africa by addressing energy justice and social equity, while recommending policy and financial interventions to accelerate adoption.