Browsing Working papers by Author "Zhang, Xiao-Bing"

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    • Household fuel choice in urban China: A random effect generalized probit analysis 

      Zhang, Xiao-Bing; Hassen, Sied (2014-05)
      Using seven rounds of household survey data that span more than a decade, this paper analyzes the determinants of household fuel choice in urban China. Unlike the existing studies, we use an empirical strategy that takes ...

    • Optimal Environmental Road Pricing and Integrated Daily Commuting Patterns 

      Coria, Jessica; Zhang, Xiao-Bing (2016-12)
      Road pricing can improve air quality by reducing and spreading traffic flows. Nevertheless, air quality does not depend only on traffic flows, but also on pollution dispersion. In this paper we investigate the effects of ...

    • Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The role of Innovation 

      Zhang, Xiao-Bing (2014-04)
      This paper investigates the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a resource-consumers’ coalition and (wellhead) energy pricing by a producers’ cartel under possible innovation in a cheap carbon-free technology ...

    • The Harrington Paradox Squared 

      Coria, Jessica; Zhang, Xiao-Bing (2015-01)
      Harrington (1988) shows that state-dependent enforcement based on past compliance records provides an explanation to the seemingly contradictory observation that firms' compliance with environmental regulations is high ...