Exploring the Mechanism of the Impact of Green Finance and Digital Economy on China’s Green Total Factor Productivity

Guo, Jianfeng; Zhang, Kai; Liu, Kecheng

doi:10.3390/ijerph192316303

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“…Thirdly, the promotion effect of the level of development of the digital economy on ecological protection and green development. Based on the urban panel data of 280 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011-2019, Guo and Ma (2022) used component analysis and SBM-Malmquist method to measure the level of development of the digital economy and green total factor productivity in China's major cities, and conducted an empirical analyses on it. The results show that the digital economy has a significant driving effect on urban green total factor productivity, that is, the digital economy can indirectly promote urban green total factor productivity by enhancing green innovation, and industrial structure upgrading (Guo and Ma, 2022).…”

Section: Journal Of Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Yang,

Han

2024

JIDE

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PurposeExploring the intrinsic connection between the ecological environment and the digital economy and empirically testing how the level of digital economic development affects the ecological environment. Using the entropy weighting method to analyze the weights of the indicators in the digital economic development level and ecological environment system to explore the factors that have the greatest impact on the ecological environment in the indicator system of the digital economic development level so as to deepen the theoretical understanding of the relationship between the level of development of the digital economy and the ecological environment. Explore the regional heterogeneity of the level of development of the digital economy to promote the healthy development of China’s ecological environment proving the difference in the level of development of the digital economy in the east west and central regions of China and the difference in the effect on the ecological environment.Design/methodology/approachBased on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2013 to 2021 this paper fits the index system of digital economy development level with three factors. A digital infrastructure digital industry and digital application combines environmental pollution and energy consumption to construct ecological environment indicators and explored the impact of digital economy development level on the ecological environment by using the entropy weight method and the random effect model.FindingsThe findings indicate that the degree of digital economic development has a positive and significant impact on promoting the healthy development of the ecological environment, in which the digital industry has the greatest impact on the ecological environment. Meanwhile, the improvement of industrial structure also has a positive effect on the improvement of the ecological environment, whereas the level of human capital inhibits the healthy development of the ecological environment, and the governmental support fails to effectively and significantly promote the improvement of the ecological environment. Furthermore, the empirical research indicates that the level of digital economy development has obvious regional heterogeneity on the healthy development of the ecological environment: the eastern and central regions have a significant effect, while the western region has a less significant effect.Originality/valueAlthough domestic and foreign scholars and experts have conducted sufficient studies on the ecological environment and the development level of digital economy respectively, there are few studies on the empirical analysis of the positive significance and regional heterogeneity of the impact of the development level of digital economy on the ecological environment, which can be supplemented and referred to in this study. At the same time, it also provides intellectual support for our country to achieve high-quality development of digital economy and efficient governance of ecological environment.

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Section: Journal Of Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Yang,

Han

2024

JIDE

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“…This leads to a pattern of latecomer disadvantage in China's regional growth 8 . Some in their empirical study indicate that the central and western regions, due to a lack of resource endowments and inherent deficiencies in industrial foundations and innovation capabilities, not only find it difficult to enhance TFP through the digital economy, but may even experience a suppression in productivity 9 . Others suggest that the development of the digital economy accentuates the siphoning effect in the southeastern coastal regions, thereby widening the TFP gap on either side of China's Hu Huanyong Line in the short term 10 .…”

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The impact of the digital economy on urban total factor productivity: mechanisms and spatial spillover effects

Zou,

Liao,

Fan

2024

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Digital economy is the indispensable pathway for driving industrial structural upgrading and fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in cities, ultimately facilitating China's economic transformation. Simultaneously, the enhancement of urban total factor productivity (TFP) serves as a crucial means to achieve high-quality economic development in cities. This study examines the specific impact of the digital economy on urban TFP using a panel data model with a sample of 285 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2011 to 2019. Additionally, it employs a mediation effect model to test the mechanisms through which the digital economy influences urban TFP and utilizes a spatial Durbin model to analyze the spatial spillover effects of the digital economy on urban TFP. The research findings reveal the following key points: (1)The digital economy has an overall significantly positive impact on urban TFP. (2)The digital economy indirectly promotes urban TFP by encouraging the advancement of industrial structure and fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in cities. (3)The influence of the digital economy on urban TFP exhibits spatial spillover effects, where the digital economy in neighboring cities significantly enhances the TFP growth of local cities.The results of this study contribute to elucidating the mechanistic pathways through which the digital economy affects urban TFP, holding significant practical implications for achieving high-quality economic development in urban areas.

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“…Zhao et al (2020) found that the digital economy can enhance entrepreneurial activity and promote high-quality economic development using empirical research on the panel data of 222 cities above the prefecture level in China. In addition, several studies have analyzed the impact of DT on trade in services (Zhou L. et al, 2023), total factor energy efficiency (Fu et al, 2023;Huang et al, 2023), knowledge innovation (Orlando et al, 2020;Wang and Li, 2023), economic growth (Qu et al, 2017), air pollution , and green total factor productivity (Guo et al, 2022;Zhao et al, 2022).…”

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Impact of digital technology on carbon emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities

2023

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IntroductionPromoting the development of digital technology is an important step in meeting the challenge of global climate change and achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.MethodsBased on panel data of Chinese cities from 2006 to 2020, this paper used econometrics to investigate the impact and mechanism of digital technology on carbon emissions.ResultsThe results showed that digital technology can significantly reduce carbon emission intensity and improve carbon emission efficiency. These results remained robust after changing the estimation method, adding policy omission variables, replacing core variables, and solving the endogeneity problem. Digital technology can indirectly reduce carbon emissions by promoting green technological innovation and reducing energy intensity, and it plays a significant role in the carbon emission reduction practices of carbon emission trading policies and comprehensive national big data pilot zones. The replicability, non-exclusivity, and high mobility of digital technology help to accelerate the spread of knowledge and information between different cities, which leads to a spillover effect on carbon emission reductions. Our unconditional quantile regression model results showed that digital technology’s carbon emission reduction effect continuously decreases with increases in carbon dioxide emissions.DiscussionThe results of this paper provide evidence for the potential use of digital technology in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality, which is of great significance for achieving high-quality innovation and promoting the green transformation of the economy and society.

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Exploring the Mechanism of the Impact of Green Finance and Digital Economy on China’s Green Total Factor Productivity

Cited by 27 publications

References 61 publications

Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

The impact of the digital economy on urban total factor productivity: mechanisms and spatial spillover effects

Impact of digital technology on carbon emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities

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