Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, PR China.
Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, PR China.
J Environ Manage. 2021 Aug 15;292:112765. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112765. Epub 2021 May 20.
According to data from the working reports of China's 244 prefecture-level city governments from 2004 to 2016, we used the instrumental variable method to identify the effects of governments' behavior of setting economic growth targets on regional green technology innovation. The results show that the setting and top-down amplification of economic growth targets have significant inhibitory effects on green technology innovation. The inhibitory effect is more prominent in cities with rapid economic growth and over fulfilment of economic growth targets. In addition, the higher the degree of over fulfilment of the economic target becomes, the more prominent the inhibiting effect is. An impact mechanism analysis reveals that economic growth target constraints affect regional green technology innovation through an industrial structure effect and foreign investment introduction effect.
根据 2004 年至 2016 年中国 244 个地级市政府工作报告中的数据，我们采用工具变量法，识别了政府设定经济增长目标的行为对区域绿色技术创新的影响。结果表明，设定和自上而下放大经济增长目标对绿色技术创新具有显著的抑制作用。在经济增长较快且经济增长目标超额完成程度较高的城市中，这种抑制作用更为明显。此外，经济目标完成程度越高，抑制作用越明显。通过产业结构效应和外资引进效应的影响机制分析发现，经济增长目标约束通过这两个效应影响区域绿色技术创新。
