The Impact of Low-Carbon City Pilot Policies on Urban Green Energy Efficiency: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on Three Batches of Pilot Policy Implementation
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low-carbon city pilot policy; green energy efficiency; difference-in-differences model; spatial spillover effects;All these keywords.
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