How the Digital Economy Affects Urban Green Total Factor Productivity: Empirical Evidence from the Huaihe River Ecological Economic Belt

Lingyan Xia

doi:10.54097/ata7pd49

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Lingyan Xia

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https://doi.org/10.54097/ata7pd49

Keywords:

Digital Economy, Green Total Factor Productivity, Huaihe River Ecological Economic Belt

Abstract

In the new normal economic development environment, the digital economy, as an emerging driving force, plays a key role in the promotion of the green economy. This paper takes the cities of the Huaihe River Ecological Economic Belt from 2007 to 2022 as the research object, and analyzes the mechanism of the digital economy on urban green total factor productivity based on the two-way fixed effect model. The study shows that the digital economy significantly promotes the green total factor productivity of cities in the Huaihe River Ecological Economic Belt by improving green technology innovation and optimizing the investment structure, and the effect is uneven in the east and low in the east and low in the west (negative in the west).

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