Technological Innovation, Fiscal Decentralization, Green Development Efficiency: Based on Spatial Effect and Moderating Effect

Yongming Zhu, Xiaoyu Zhou, Junjie Li and Fan Wang
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Yongming Zhu: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Xiaoyu Zhou: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Junjie Li: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Fan Wang: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: Green development efficiency is an essential measure of China’s economy turning into a stage of high-quality development in the new era. This paper establishes a spatial Durbin model based on the new geography economics. It empirically investigates the spatial effect of technological innovation on regional green development efficiency and the moderating effect of fiscal decentralization on the above mechanism using panel data of 29 provinces in China from 2010 to 2018. The results show that: from 2010 to 2018, both technological innovation and green development efficiency in Chinese provinces show significant spatial clustering effects; technological innovation not only has a significant role in promoting green development efficiency in the region but also leads to the improvement of green development efficiency in neighboring regions; and fiscal decentralization positively regulates the direct effect of technological innovation on green development efficiency in the region, and negatively regulates the spatial spillover effect of technological innovation on green development efficiency in neighboring regions.

Keywords: fiscal decentralization; technological innovation; green development efficiency; spatial effect; moderating effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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