Research on the Impact and Mechanism of Digital Economy Empowering Regional Low-Carbon Development
As an important driving force to reshape the social economy,it is of great significance to clarify the mechanism of digital economy empowering regional low-carbon development.Based on China's provincial panel data from 2011 to 2021,this paper measures the regional low-carbon economy and digital economy development level,and empirically demonstrates the effect and mechanism of digital economy on total factor carbon productivity.The results indicate that the digital economy can significantly promote regional low-carbon economy,and a series of robustness tests show that the conclusion is valid.The heterogeneity test shows that the digital economy plays a significant role in promoting the low-carbon economy in the eastern and central regions of China,and the impact of the digital economy in the eastern region is significantly higher than that in the central region,while the digital economy in the western region has a"negative energy"effect on the low-carbon economy,and the higher the level of regional economic development and digitization,the more significant the effect of the digital economy on empowering the regional development of the low-carbon economy.The development of digital economy is conducive to enhancing regional green technology innovation capacity,economic agglomeration and digital infrastructure construction,which play a intermediary role in the process of digital economy empowering regional low-carbon economy.Therefore,local governments should strengthen the construction of digital infrastructure according to local conditions and bridge the regional digital divide in multiple dimensions,and play a bridging role between technological progress and economic agglomeration to accommodate the transmission path of regional low-carbon development empowered by digital economy.
digital economytotal factor carbon productivitygreen technology innovationeconomic agglomerationdigital infrastructure development
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