Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Regional Green Development under China’s Environmental Decentralization System—Based on Spatial Durbin Model and Threshold Effect

Yuxin Fang, Hongjun Cao () and Jihui Sun
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Yuxin Fang: School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
Hongjun Cao: School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
Jihui Sun: School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-27

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the core technology of digital economy, which leads the transition to a sustainable economic growth approach under the Chinese-style environmentally decentralized system. In this paper, we first measured the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of 30 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2020 using the super-efficiency slacks-based measure (SBM) model, analyzed the mechanism of the effect of AI on GTFP under the environmental decentralization regime, and secondly, empirically investigated the spatial evolution characteristics and the constraining effect of the impact of AI on GTFP using the spatial Durbin model (SDM) and the threshold regression model. The findings reveal: a U shape of the correlation of AI with GTFP; environmental decentralization acts as a positive moderator linking AI and GTFP; the Moran index demonstrates the spatial correlation of GTFP; under the constraint of technological innovation and regional absorptive capacity as threshold variables, the effect of AI over GTFP is U-shaped. This paper provides a useful reference for China to accelerate the formation of a digital-driven green economy development model.

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); green total factor productivity (GTFP); environmental decentralization; technological innovation; regional absorptive capacity; moderating effect; spatial Durbin model (SDM); threshold regression model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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