文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Heterogeneous green innovations and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level

作者：Xu, Le[1];Fan, Meiting[1];Yang, Lili[2];Shao, Shuai[3]

机构：[1]Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Inst Finance & Econ Res, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China;[2]Shanghai Lixin Univ Accounting & Finance, Sch Int Econ & Trade, Shanghai 201209, Peoples R China;[3]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2021

卷号：99

外文期刊名：ENERGY ECONOMICS

收录：;EI(收录号：20211910344573);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000664769400023)】；

基金：We acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 72074150, 71922015, and 71773075) , the National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 21ZDA084) , the 13th Batch Post-Doctoral Science Foundation Special Fund Project of China (No. 2020T130397) , China Post-Doctoral Science Foundation (No. 2020M671062) , Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project (No. 2019BJB001) , Shanghai PostDoctoral Excellence Program, and Shanghai Soft Science Research Program (No. 20692103100) .

语种：英文

外文关键词：Green innovation; Carbon emission performance; Green patent; Mediation effect; Heterogeneity; China

摘要：Green innovation has been positioned as an effective way to balance economic development and environmental governance. However, the impact of green innovation (i.e., innovation relating to the environmentally sound technologies (ESTs)) on carbon emission performance in a large developing country, such as China, has been paid little attention. This paper investigates the impact of green innovation on carbon emission performance based on a panel data set covering 218 prefecture-level cities in China from 2007 to 2013. First, we examine whether heterogeneous green innovations have a synergistic effect on carbon emission performance using the two-way fixed effect model, instrumental variable method, and spatial econometric model. Moreover, using a causal mediation effect model, we identify four kinds of potential transmission channels of green innovation affecting carbon emission performance: energy consumption structure effect, industrial structure effect, urbanization effect, and foreign direct investment (FDI) effect. The results indicate a positive effect of green innovation and its sub-categories on carbon emission performance in China. However, a noteworthy phenomenon is that direct carbon emission-reduction innovation and green administrative innovation have a weaker effect on carbon emission performance than other kinds of green innovations. In addition, the positive effect has an evident heterogeneity in different kinds of cities. To be specific, green innovation has an evident positive impact on carbon emission performance in key cities for environmental protection, resource-based cities, non-resource-based cities, and central cities. Meanwhile, a "snowball" effect and a symbiotic effect of carbon emission performance exist in local cities and between cities, respectively. Finally, we find that green innovation significantly decreases and increases carbon emission performance through industrial structure effect and FDI effect, respectively. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.