Can green performance evaluation break the'resource curse'?empirical evidence from resource-based cities
Trapped by the'resource curse,'how traditional resource-based cities can achieve high-quality development while driving forward the green growth transition has become an important issue of concern to academic and political circles.This study took the Chi-nese central government's energy conservation and emission reduction target assessment policy as an entry point to explore the underly-ing mechanisms and economic consequences of green performance assessment on the green transformation development of resource-based cities.Based on the theoretical analysis,using the urban panel data from 2006 to 2020,this study calculated the intensity of green performance assessment with the compositive index method,and constructed the indicators for measuring green economic growth by using the direction SBM distance function model.Then,the study empirically analyzed the impact of the green performance assess-ment on the green economic growth of resource-based cities by using the two-way fixed effect model and instrumental variable regres-sion.The results showed that:① Local-government green performance assessment significantly promoted green economic growth in re-source-based cities,and this conclusion still held after a series of robustness tests,including replacing the independent variable and ex-cluding other policy interference.② The green performance assessment mainly realized the promotion of green economic growth through three pathways,namely,regional green technological innovation,industrial structure cleaning,and resource allocation optimiza-tion.③ Heterogeneity analysis indicated that in regions with stronger promotion incentives for local officials and lower dependence on local state-owned enterprises,the policy effect was more pronounced.Simultaneously,in mature and exhausted resource-based cities,cities with coal and metal as dominant endowments,the policy was even more effective.In contrast to most previous studies focusing on strategies for breaking the'resource curse'around resource management,this study reveals that an appropriate target-based perfor-mance assessment system can also effectively curb the'curse'.This study not only provides a basis for decision-making on the green transformation and sustainable development of resource-based cities,but also supplements new empirical evidence to the literature on the govenance of the'resource curse.'
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