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Title How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?
ID_Doc 30314
Authors Chai, JX; Hao, Y; Wu, HT; Yu, YK; Hu, N
Title How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?
Year 2023
Published
DOI 10.1080/10438599.2023.2267447
Abstract The process of economic development in China cannot be separated from the 'shadow' of government target intervention. Under the Chinese system of fiscal decentralization, constraints created by local government fiscal revenue targets (CCFRTs) will have a series of influence on development economically and socially. Based on the fiscal revenue target data revealed in the government work reports of 281 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2019, this paper explores the influence of CCFRTs on green technology innovation (GTI). The findings are as follows: first, CCFRTs significantly inhibits GTI. Second, Spatial Durbin model analysis shows that CCFRTs has significant negative spatial spillover effect on GTI. Third, CCFRTs can affect GTI through the optimization of industrial structure, the level of human capital, and the degree of opening-up, technological progress and economic growth. Fourth, CCFRTs has an obvious threshold effect on GTI. Finally, the influence of CCFRTs on GTI has regional heterogeneity in central, eastern and western China. In the western and central regions, CCFRTs significantly restrains GTI significantly, while in the eastern region, CCFRTs significantly promotes GTI.
Author Keywords Constraints created by local government fiscal revenue targets; green technology innovation; influence mechanism; spatial effect
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:001079295800001
WoS Category Economics
Research Area Business & Economics
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