How and what kind of cities benefit from the development of digital inclusive finance? Evidence from the upgrading of export in Chinese cities

Yu Pan, Li Ma and Yanzhen Wang

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2022, vol. 35, issue 1, 3979-4007

Abstract: Employing Chinese customs data and the Peking University Digital Financial Inclusion Index of China, this paper studies the impact of China's digital finance development on the upgrading of export at the city level and further explores the heterogeneity across cities and the mechanisms through which digital finance influences export upgrading. Benchmark results suggest that digital inclusive finance can significantly promote the upgrading of export. The heterogeneity analysis shows that cities with a smaller size, lower wage, higher human capital level, and better location advantage experience greater facilitating effects of digital inclusive finance on promoting export upgrading. It suggests that, compared with ‘icing on the cake’, the digital inclusive finance plays a better role in ‘offering fuel in snowy weather’, whereas full exertion of the inclusiveness of digital finance requires higher human capital and location advantage. Further mechanism analysis shows that innovation effect and market effect are the main channels where digital inclusive finance promotes the upgrading of a city’s export.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2021.2007414

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