Shiming Yang

Leiden University | LEI

The COVID-19 pandemic and global responses to this crisis reveal the changing landscape of global health governance. As countries around the world struggle to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens, some non-Western powers have actively distributed vaccines internationally-an act broadly recognized as vaccine diplomacy. While existing literatu...

en International institutions are important regulators of the trade–environment relationship. Many of them deploy trade measures for environmental purposes, with mixed results. The Basel Convention is one case where trade restrictions have not succeeded in curbing movements of hazardous waste or protecting vulnerable countries from waste dumping. C...

If fiscal decentralization promotes growth, why do some regions decentralize more than others? This article identifies the growing divergence of fiscal centralization among Chinese cities and explains it in a public finance framework. It argues that fiscal decentralization and its economy‐liberalizing effect entail significant short‐term fiscal ris...

State of Michigan has relatively little solar resources but substantial installation capacity. Three governmental promotional policies are currently in position or have high potential to be adopted by the state government. This study analyzes three policy options: property tax exemption, Feed-in Tariffs, and Green Power Purchase. This study uses th...