Unlocking Carbon Reduction Potential of Digital Trade: Evidence from China’s Comprehensive Cross-border E-Commerce Pilot Zones

• Published in: SAGE open Vol. 15; no. 1
• Main Authors: Gao, Da, Tan, Linfang, Chen, Yue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2025; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Resource Allocation; carbon emissions; mechanism analysis; digital trade; cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone; spatial difference-in-difference model

As an important driving force for economic growth, digital trade provides opportunities for urban green development. Using city-level data in China from 2005 to 2020, we take the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone (CBEC) as a policy shock to construct a spatial difference-in-difference...