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CAO Jing

Economics    Associate Professor

Phone:(86)(10)62792726

E-mail:caojing@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Office:Lihua Building B605

Office Hours:By Appointment

Educational Background

2001-2007

Ph.D. in Public Policy

          Harvard University


1998-2001      Master of Environmental Science           Peking University

1994-1998      Bachelor in Economics and Geology      Peking University





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Work Experience

2010 - now      Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management 

                        Tsinghua University, Beijing, China


 2007-2010   Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management  

                        Tsinghua University, Beijing, China



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Courses

Undergraduate Course in Environmental and Resource Economics

Ph.D Course in Energy and Environmental Economics

Freshman Seminar: Climate Change and Carbon Finance

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Research Areas

Energy, environment, and climate change economics, in particular focusing on carbon pricing in China, environmental tax reform, and dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling and interdisciplinary policy assessment.



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Publications

Jing Cao, Yazhen Gong, Qingfeng Liu, Coordinating Climate Mitigation and Pollution Control Policies: Insights from China’s SO2 Reduction Mandates, Energy Economics, forthcoming


Jing Cao, Xiao Liu, Rong Ma, and Ang Sun, Anti-social Response to the Coal to Gas Regulation: An Unintended Consequence of a Residential Energy Policy, Management Science, Feb. 11 2025 (online)


Jing Cao, Soo Keong Yong, Management Practices and Energy Efficiency: Evidence from Firms in China, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024, 52(4), 848-870


Soo Keong Yong, Ulrich J. Wagner, Peiyao Shen, Laure de Preux, Mirabelle Muûls, Ralf Martin, and Jing Cao, Management Practices and Climate Policy in China, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists, 2024(11), 5, 1065-1100


Jing Cao, Mun S. Ho, Rong Ma, and Yu Zhang, Transition from Plan to Market: Imperfect Regulations in the Electricity Sector of China, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024(52) 509-533


Jing Cao, Rong Ma, Mitigating Agricultural Fires with Carrot or Stick? Evidence from China, Journal of Development Economics, 2023 (165), DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103173


Cao, Jing, Mun Ho and Qingfeng Liu (2023) “Analyzing multi-greenhouse gas mitigation of China using a general equilibrium model,” Environmental Research Letters, 18, 025001.

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb0e7


Fan, Maoyong, Jing Cao, Zhang, Kuangyuan,Lei, Zhen (2022), Command vs. Market in China’s Energy Intensity Reduction Strategies: Firm-level Evidence, PLoS ONE,17(2): e0263325


Yang, Jinzhao, Zhao, Yu, Jing Cao, Nielsen, Chris (2021), Co-benefits of carbon and pollution control policies on air quality and health till 2030 in China, Environment International, 152: 106482


Jing Cao, Dai, Hancheng, Li, Shantong, He, Chaoyi Guo, Mun Ho, Wenjia Cai, Jianwu He, Hai Huang, Jifeng Li, Yu Liu, Haoqi Qian, Can Wang, Libo Wu, Xiliang Zhang (2021), "The general equilibrium impacts of carbon tax policy in China: A multi-model comparison," Energy Economics, 99: 105284.


Jing Cao, Ho, Mun S., Ma, Rong, Teng, Fei (2021), "When carbon emission trading meets a regulated industry: Evidence from the electricity sector of China", Journal of Public Economics, 200:104470


Haoqi Qian, Shaodan Xu, Jing Cao, Feizhou Ren, Wendong Wei, Libo Wu (2021), Air pollution reduction and climate co-benefits in China's industries, Nature Sustainability Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 417-425


Minghao Qiu, Yangqin Weng, Jing Cao, Noelle E. Selin, and Valerie J. Karplus (2020), Improving Evaluation of Energy Policies with Multiple Goals: Comparing Ex Ante and Ex Post Approaches, Environmental Science & Technology 54, 15584-15593


Jing Cao, Mun S. Ho, Wenhao Hu and Dale Jorgenson (2020), Urban Household Consumption in China: Price, Income, and Demographic Effects, Review of Development Economics (online)


Jing Cao, Mun S. Ho, and Rong Ma (2020), Analyzing Carbon Pricing Policies Using a General Equilibrium Model with Production Parameters Estimated Using Firm Data, Energy Economics 92, 104958.


Jing Cao, Mun S. Ho, Wenhao Hu and Dale Jorgenson (2020), Effective Labor Supply and Growth Outlook in China, China Economic Review 61: 101398


Jing Cao, Mun S. Ho, Wenhao Hu and Dale Jorgenson (2020), Estimating flexible consumption functions for urban and rural households in China. China Economic Review 61: 101453


Jing Cao, Mun Ho, Dale W. Jorgenson, Chris P. Nielsen (2019) "China’s Emissions Trading System and an ETS-carbon tax hybrid", Energy Economics (81), 741-753


Jing Cao, Mun Ho, Yating Li, Richard Newell, William Pizer (2019), Chinese Residential Electricity Consumption Estimation and Forecast Using Micro-data, Resource and Energy Economics 56:6-27


Ge Zhu, Wenhao Hu, Yifan Liu, Jing Cao, Zongwei Ma, Yu Deng, Clive E. Sabel, Haikun Wang (2019), Health burdens of ambient PM2.5 pollution across Chinese cities during 2006–2015, Journal of Environmental Management 243: 250-256


Wenhao Hu, Mun S. Ho, Jing Cao, "Energy Consumption of Urban Households in China", China Economic Review 58: 101343


Jingxu Wang, Jintai Lin, Kuishuang Feng, Peng Liu, Mingxi Du, Ruijing Ni, Lulu Chen, Hao Kong, Hongjian Weng, Mengyao Liu, Giovanni Baiocchi, Yu Zhao, Zhifu Mi, Jing CaoKlaus Hubacek (2019), "Environmental Taxation and Regional Inequality in China", Science Bulletin 64(22)1691-1699


Nan Zhong, Jing Cao, Yuzhu Wang (2017), “Traffic Congestion, Ambient Air Pollution and Health – Evidence from Driving Restrictions in Beijing,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 4(3), pp. 821-856.


Hu, Z., J. Cao, L.J. Hong (2012) “Robust Simulation of Global Warming Policies Using the DICE Model,” Management Science 58(12), pp.2190-2206


Cao, J., R. Garbaccio and M. Ho (2009) “China’s 11th Five-Year Plan and the Environment: Reducing SO2 Emissions,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2), pp 231-250.


Cao, J., M. Ho and D. Jorgenson (2009) “The Local and Global Benefits of Green Tax Policies in China,” Review of Environmental Economic and Policy 3(2), pp. 189-208.










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