Research Article
Impact of Innovative City Construction on Green Growth Evidence from China's Innovative Pilot Cities
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.2-12-2022.2328730, author={Wenqi Zhao and Toh Moau Yong}, title={Impact of Innovative City Construction on Green Growth Evidence from China's Innovative Pilot Cities}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Big Data Economy and Information Management, BDEIM 2022, December 2-3, 2022, Zhengzhou, China}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={BDEIM}, year={2023}, month={6}, keywords={innovative city policy; non-resource-based cities; multi-period did; green total factor productivity}, doi={10.4108/eai.2-12-2022.2328730} }- Wenqi Zhao
Toh Moau Yong
Year: 2023
Impact of Innovative City Construction on Green Growth Evidence from China's Innovative Pilot Cities
BDEIM
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.2-12-2022.2328730
Abstract
This essay investigates how innovative city policy affect green growth. It employs data from 284 prefecture-level cities in China between 2007 and 2019, green total factor productivity index as a gauge of green growth, innovative city policy as a quasi-natural experiment, and a multi-period DID approach to examine how such policy affects green total factor productivity. The results of the study show that on the average the green total factor productivity of innovative pilot cities is 0.95% higher compared to non-pilot cit-ies, indicating that an innovative city policy has a significant contribution to green growth. This result also survived in robustness tests. In addition, this study finds that in the impact of innovative city policy on green growth is heterogeneous across city scale and resource, with the driving effect being more pronounced in medium-sized cities and non-resource-based cities.
