Does environmental regulation drive away inbound foreign direct investment? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

By Xiqian Cai, Yi Lu, Mingqin Wu, Linhui Yu. 2016

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Measures in the Residential Sector Gas Consumption Through Dynamic Treatment Effects: Evidence from England and Wales (2022, methodology): “Mirroring the strategy followed by other authors like Cai et al. (2016), or La Ferrara et al. (2012), we run a placebo test (falsification) test, by randomly assigning the adoption of an EE measure to a group of households different from the ones in the treated group in our analysis.”
Greening Through Finance? (2021, background): “38 For example, Boyreau-Debray and Wei (2005) point out that Chinese banks - mostly state owned - tend to more easily offer credit to SOEs.”
Career concerns and multitasking local bureaucrats: Evidence of a target-based performance evaluation system in China (2018, background): “Speciﬁcally, existing studies have shown that the implementation of the TCZ policy in 1998 aﬀected foreign investment (Cai et al., 2016), exports (Hering and Poncet, 2014) and health (Tanaka, 2015).”