Digital Infrastructure and Green Trade:Empowerment or Negative Empowerment
As an important support point for digital transformation,whether digital infrastructure can rely on digital empowerment to promote the development of green trade is an urgent issue that needs to be studied.The article uses panel data from APEC member countries from 2007 to 2021 to construct an econometric model,examining the impact,mechanism,and spatial spillover effects of digital infrastructure on green trade,and further exploring the moderating effect of institutional quality.Research has found that digital infrastructure can promote the development of green trade,and this conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests.The upgrading of industrial structure and technological innovation play an important conductive role in promoting green trade in digital infrastructure.Digital infrastructure not only promotes the development of domestic green trade,but also has a positive spatial spillover effect on other countries.In the long run,it presents a negative spatial spillover effect,but the spillover effect is relatively weak.The positive impact of digital infrastructure on green trade has been further validated in the heterogeneity analysis of different levels of development,trade dependence,and information and communication technology regulation in different countries,but there are differences at different levels of maritime transportation.Furthermore,it is found that the impact of digital infrastructure on green trade has a positive promoting effect of diminishing non-linear marginal effects of institutional quality.Based on this,we should continue to strengthen the construction of digital infrastructure to empower the development of green trade,and focus on improving the quality of a country's system to safeguard the promotion of green trade through digital infrastructure.
digital infrastructuregreen tradespatial spillover effectsystem quality
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