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How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?

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  • Jingxia Chai
  • Yu Hao
  • Haitao Wu
  • Yunke Yu
  • Nan Hu

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The process of economic development in China cannot be separated from the ‘shadow’ of government target intervention. Under the Chinese system of fiscal decentralization, constraints created by local government fiscal revenue targets (CCFRTs) will have a series of influence on development economically and socially. Based on the fiscal revenue target data revealed in the government work reports of 281 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2019, this paper explores the influence of CCFRTs on green technology innovation (GTI). The findings are as follows: first, CCFRTs significantly inhibits GTI. Second, Spatial Durbin model analysis shows that CCFRTs has significant negative spatial spillover effect on GTI. Third, CCFRTs can affect GTI through the optimization of industrial structure, the level of human capital, and the degree of opening-up, technological progress and economic growth. Fourth, CCFRTs has an obvious threshold effect on GTI. Finally, the influence of CCFRTs on GTI has regional heterogeneity in central, eastern and western China. In the western and central regions, CCFRTs significantly restrains GTI significantly, while in the eastern region, CCFRTs significantly promotes GTI.

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  • Jingxia Chai & Yu Hao & Haitao Wu & Yunke Yu & Nan Hu, 2024. "How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(7), pages 1002-1028, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecinnt:v:33:y:2024:i:7:p:1002-1028
    DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2023.2267447
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