Can financial innovation and industrial structure upgrading reduce regional criminal activity levels?

Huasheng Huang, Xiaoli Xu and Shilin Du

Finance Research Letters, 2025, vol. 75, issue C

Abstract: Using data from 31 provinces in China from 2010 to 2022, this study examines the impact of financial innovation and industrial structure upgrading on regional criminal crime levels. Empirical findings demonstrate that financial innovation can diminish regional crime rates, and industrial structure upgrading can similarly reduce regional crime levels. Moreover, industrial structure upgrading mediates the relationship between financial innovation and regional crime levels. The influence of financial innovation on criminal activity levels differs across different regions. Finally, a threshold effect of economic development level exists on the impact of financial innovation on regional crime levels.

Keywords: Financial innovation; Industrial structure upgrading; Criminal crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2025.106862

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