Does the Development of Digital Finance Widen the Regional Green Development Gap
Drawing on the panel data of 285 cities in China from 2012 to 2019,this paper uses EBM-GML index and spatial Du-bin model to empirically examine the economic effects,heterogeneous characteristics and transmission channels of digital financial de-velopment on green economy efficiency and green development gap.The results show that there is a positive U-shaped relationship be-tween digital finance and green economy efficiency.Digital finance can widen intergroup green development gap and aggravate the ine-quality of green development.The effects of three sub-dimensions of digital finance and different city levels on the efficiency of urban green economy are heterogeneous.Green technology innovation and industrial structure upgrading are the main ways for digital finance to affect green economy efficiency,while the gap between green technology innovation and regional entrepreneurship level is the main source of widening green development gap.
digital financeintergroup green development gapgreen economic efficiencygreen technology innovationspa-tial Dubin model
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