The impact of fintech innovation on green growth in China: Mediating effect of green finance

Guangyou Zhou, Jieyu Zhu and Sumei Luo

Ecological Economics, 2022, vol. 193, issue C

Abstract: Although green growth has become the economic development strategy of many countries in the world, and studies have analyzed the influencing factors of green growth from multiple angles, there are few literatures devoted to the impact of fintech and green finance on green growth. From the perspective of fintech development, this paper tries to construct a comprehensive index to evaluate the green growth of regional economy based on the in-depth analysis of the influence mechanism of green finance on green growth. At the same time, China's provincial panel data from 2011 to 2018 are selected to test the impact of fintech innovation and green finance on green growth, and its mechanism. It turns out that fintech and green finance significantly promotes green economic growth. At the same time, the impact of fintech and green finance on green growth has obvious regional heterogeneity, that is, the impact in eastern China is significantly stronger than that in central and western China. Further research shows that fintech innovation mainly promotes green economic growth through green credit and green investment. Therefore, fintech innovation can promote green economic growth by improving the development level of green finance, which has great reference significance for most countries.

Keywords: Fintech innovation; Green finance; Green credit; Green investment; Green growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107308

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