The Impact of the Digital Economy on Provincial Carbon Productivity
Empirical Evidence from China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3311444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Fan (0000-0002-1315-4493, Taiyuan University of Technology), Le Yan (0000-0003-1960-8641, Taiyuan University of Technology, corresponding author), Huaichao Chen (0000-0002-7902-6515, Taiyuan University of Technology) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/21582440241253760 |
| OpenAlex | W4402392962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 63 |
With the introduction of the dual carbon goals of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality", low-carbon economic development has become the focus of attention for all sectors in China. Improving carbon productivity (CP) is the key to developing a low-carbon economy and is essential to achieving carbon emission reduction and economic growth. The rapid development of the digital economy (DE) provides a new breakthrough for improving carbon productivity, but there are few studies on the digital economy and carbon productivity in the existing literatures. We empirically investigate the impact mechanism of the digital economy on provincial carbon productivity using China's provincial panel data from 2010 to 2019. This study finds that the digital economy significantly raises provincial carbon productivity; this result remains valid after a series of robustness tests. The digital economy can impact provincial carbon productivity through both energy consumption structure (ECS) and green technology innovation (GTI) and can contribute to the improvement of provincial carbon productivity by optimizing energy consumption structure and improving green technology innovation. In addition, different environmental regulations have different impacts. Command-and-control environmental regulation (CER) weakens the positive impact of the digital economy on provincial carbon productivity, whereas market-based environmental regulation (MER) enhances the positive impact of the digital economy on provincial carbon productivity. This study extends the research on the digital economy in the field of low-carbon development, providing insights and policy suggestions for relevant departments to promote low-carbon development from the perspective of the digital economy
Business · China · Digital economy · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Empirical evidence · Natural resource economics · Political science · Productivity · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Innovation Policy and RD
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Environmental Policy, Innovation and Performance
Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions
Digitalization and energy
SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models
Impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions of transportation infrastructure
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Envisaging the carbon emissions efficiency of digitalization
Carbon Productivity Analysis to Address Global Climate Change
Infrastructure and entrepreneurship
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Different Types of Environmental Regulations and Heterogeneous Influence on “Green” Productivity
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| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |