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Feng Wang
Department of Applied Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

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Journal article
Published: 13 August 2021 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Income inequality and environmental pollution are of great concern in China. It is important to better understand whether the narrowing of income inequality and environmental improvement contradict each other. The study aims to investigate the linkage between income inequality and environmental pollution. To illustrate the interplay between different income groups on environmental issues, we apply a mixed-strategy game. Based on the game-theoretic analytical result, the probability of residents supporting clean energy and environmental protection decreases as income inequality widens and increases as inequality narrows. This empirical study is based on the proportion of coal consumption and urban air pollution data from 113 key environmental protection cities and regions in China. The air quality data are from the National Environmental Air Quality Monitoring Network published in the China Statistical Yearbook from 2014–2018. Convincing results show that regions with higher income inequality suffer severe smog and related pollution and that economies with narrow income disparity experience significant improvements in smog and pollution control, with the expansion of the proportion of clean energy use. The results also provide no evidence of the impact of per capita income on pollution. We studied the relationship between individuals of different wealth levels within an economy, within a repeated-game setting. The finding suggests that the distribution of growth impacts pollution. Imposing higher taxes on air polluters while transferring the revenue to the lower-income group is suggested.

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Feng Wang; Jian Yang; Joshua Shackman; Xin Liu. Impact of Income Inequality on Urban Air Quality: A Game Theoretical and Empirical Study in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 8546 .

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Feng Wang, Jian Yang, Joshua Shackman, Xin Liu. Impact of Income Inequality on Urban Air Quality: A Game Theoretical and Empirical Study in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (16):8546.

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Feng Wang; Jian Yang; Joshua Shackman; Xin Liu. 2021. "Impact of Income Inequality on Urban Air Quality: A Game Theoretical and Empirical Study in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 16: 8546.

Journal article
Published: 10 April 2021 in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
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With deteriorating air quality in Chinese cities, high-speed rail (HSR) has attracted serious attention as an efficient transportation system to contain haze pollution across the country. This study introduces the concept of HSR accessibility and applies the generalized spatial two-stage least square method to examine the effect of HSR on haze pollution in China. A time-varying difference-in-difference strategy is then employed to recognize the causality from HSR to the haze pollution and eliminate endogeneity. Based on a panel dataset comprising 285 cities over 2010–2018, we find a negative effect of HSR accessibility on haze pollution. An increase of one standard deviation in HSR accessibility reduces PM2.5 concentration by 0.22%. However, the HSR pollution reduction effect varies significantly across cities. It is found that HSR can reduce haze pollution by improving the efficiency of resource allocation as well as promoting industrial structure change and technological innovation. This study proposes a new solution for pollution, i.e., improving urbanization quality through intercity transport efficiency enhancement.

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Fan Zhang; Feng Wang; Shujie Yao. High-speed rail accessibility and haze pollution in China: A spatial econometrics perspective. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2021, 94, 102802 .

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Fan Zhang, Feng Wang, Shujie Yao. High-speed rail accessibility and haze pollution in China: A spatial econometrics perspective. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 2021; 94 ():102802.

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Fan Zhang; Feng Wang; Shujie Yao. 2021. "High-speed rail accessibility and haze pollution in China: A spatial econometrics perspective." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 94, no. : 102802.

Research article
Published: 03 March 2021 in Tourism Economics
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High-speed railway (HSR) is a new and increasingly popular transportation mode in China bringing about a significant impact on the economy, including tourism development. This article investigates the effect of HSR on tourism development in China based on a time-varying difference-in-differences model. Cities connected by HSR in 2013 and 2014 are regarded as the treatment group, while those without HSR services until 2017 are placed in the control group. The empirical analyses cover a large panel dataset comprising 163 cities in 2009–2017. The empirical results suggest that both domestic tourism revenue and tourist number are positively affected by HSR, and the effect is stronger for the undeveloped or geopolitically less important regions such as the inland or prefecture-level cities. Other relevant determinants of tourism include the availability of airports and the number of hotels in the cities. Our research findings have important policy implications for tourism development in China with respect to HSR.

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Shujie Yao; Xu Yan; Chun Kwok Lei; Feng Wang. High-speed railway and tourism development in China. Tourism Economics 2021, 1 .

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Shujie Yao, Xu Yan, Chun Kwok Lei, Feng Wang. High-speed railway and tourism development in China. Tourism Economics. 2021; ():1.

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Shujie Yao; Xu Yan; Chun Kwok Lei; Feng Wang. 2021. "High-speed railway and tourism development in China." Tourism Economics , no. : 1.

Original article
Published: 19 March 2019 in China & World Economy
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High‐speed rail (HSR) has been an important driver of China's economic expansion over the last decade. Using data of 285 prefecture‐level cities over 2010–2014, this paper proposes an endogenous economic growth model to explain how and why HSR may have propelled China's economic growth by reducing the time‐space between cities. The research results show that HSR has a potent effect on urban economic growth and regional convergence. Ceteris paribus, HSR appears to have accelerated economic growth by more than 0.6 percent and the pace of regional economic convergence by approximately 2 percent per annum over the data period. Our research findings have important policy implications for the sustainability of China's economic development, backed by HSR.

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Shujie Yao; Fan Zhang; Feng Wang; Jinghua Ou. High-speed Rail and Urban Economic Growth in China after the Global Financial Crisis. China & World Economy 2019, 27, 44 -65.

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Shujie Yao, Fan Zhang, Feng Wang, Jinghua Ou. High-speed Rail and Urban Economic Growth in China after the Global Financial Crisis. China & World Economy. 2019; 27 (2):44-65.

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Shujie Yao; Fan Zhang; Feng Wang; Jinghua Ou. 2019. "High-speed Rail and Urban Economic Growth in China after the Global Financial Crisis." China & World Economy 27, no. 2: 44-65.

Journal article
Published: 16 December 2018 in Sustainability
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This study investigated whether and to what extent does the High-Speed Railway (HSR) affect city-level housing prices. With the data of HSR operation and housing prices from 285 cities from 2009 to 2017, the paper aimed to estimate the quantitative relationship between HSR and city-level housing prices and exploited city and regional dummy variables to assess the disparities between regions, followed by the economic effects between typical city pairs. Our findings were as follows: (1) The introduction of HSR leads to a 13.9% increase in city-level housing prices, and the figures for national central cities and regional central cities were 31.7% and 19.6%, respectively; (2) regional imbalance was mitigated with the development of the HSR, and some central cities in underdeveloped regions were stimulated with regard to housing price growth; (3) siphon effects and diffusion effects were observed in megacity–small city pairs, while synergistic effects often lay in megacity–megacity pairs, and such effects all tended to be more significant with increases in the number of HSR lines and a drop in the travel time.

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Yuxiang Wang; Xueli Liu; Feng Wang. Economic Impact of the High-Speed Railway on Housing Prices in China. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4799 .

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Yuxiang Wang, Xueli Liu, Feng Wang. Economic Impact of the High-Speed Railway on Housing Prices in China. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (12):4799.

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Yuxiang Wang; Xueli Liu; Feng Wang. 2018. "Economic Impact of the High-Speed Railway on Housing Prices in China." Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4799.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2018 in European Journal of Political Economy
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This study investigates the relationship between anticorruption and economic growth by focusing on the anticorruption campaigns run by the Communist Party of China. To measure the intensity of the Party's anticorruption efforts, we count the number of articles from official newspapers that discuss corruption. We first show how our proxy compares with alternative measures. Using panel data of Chinese provinces, we then estimate using various methodologies the effect of anticorruption on growth, finding a negative impact. We also find that the detrimental effect upon growth results from lowering physical investment during the anticorruption campaigns. Our findings do not imply that governments should not try to lower corruption, but do suggest a cost of doing so.

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Guangjun Qu; Kevin Sylwester; Feng Wang. Anticorruption and growth: Evidence from China. European Journal of Political Economy 2018, 55, 373 -390.

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Guangjun Qu, Kevin Sylwester, Feng Wang. Anticorruption and growth: Evidence from China. European Journal of Political Economy. 2018; 55 ():373-390.

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Guangjun Qu; Kevin Sylwester; Feng Wang. 2018. "Anticorruption and growth: Evidence from China." European Journal of Political Economy 55, no. : 373-390.