The Impact of Fintech Development on Air Pollution

Yuzhen Ma, Xinyang Wei (), Gaoyun Yan and Xiaoyu He
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Yuzhen Ma: School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Xinyang Wei: Business School, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, 4-4 Sagamine, Komenoki-cho, Nisshin, Aichi, Nagoya 470-0193, Japan
Gaoyun Yan: ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Xiaoyu He: School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: Over the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, China has achieved rapid economic and technological growth at the cost of severe air pollution. The emerging Fintech, as the result of financial institutions’ adapting to the latest digital technology, might be a solution to reduce air pollution. This paper investigates the impact of Fintech development on air pollution using a two-factor fixed effects model based on data for prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2017. The findings show that Fintech development can effectively reduce air pollution emissions, and this conclusion is proved to be robust throughout a series of tests. The mechanism analysis shows that Fintech reduces air pollution by promoting digital finance and green innovation.

Keywords: Fintech; air pollution; SO 2; PM 2.5; dust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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