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To determine the causal effect of China's Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones policy on urban green innovation efficiency and identify the underlying economic mechanisms.

July 4, 2025SustainabilityOpen Access

The Green Finance Pilot Policy Suppresses Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from Chinese Cities

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To determine the causal effect of China's Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones policy on urban green innovation efficiency and identify the underlying economic mechanisms.
Evaluated city-level data using a difference-in-differences quasi-natural experimental design based on the rollout of the Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones policy in China.
Analyzed mediating pathways involving environmental compliance costs and innovation quantity alongside moderating institutional factors including market integration and administrative pressure.
Implementation of the green finance pilot policy significantly reduced green innovation efficiency, with greater adverse impacts observed in non-central cities, provincial capitals, and western regions.
Mechanism analyses showed that elevated environmental costs led to resource lock-in and drove a strategic reallocation toward quantity-oriented over efficiency-oriented innovation.
Market integration significantly buffered policy-induced efficiency losses, whereas heightened administrative environmental pressure exacerbated allocative distortions.

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Quasi-experimental study reveals reduced green innovation efficiency across pilot cities, indicating that rigid environmental finance rules distort sustainable technological development.

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Zhu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6ab0854b2146bf2bb514eb8e https://doi.org/10.3390/su17136136

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Quasi-experimental study reveals reduced green innovation efficiency across pilot cities, indicating that rigid environmental finance rules distort sustainable technological development.

The Green Finance Pilot Policy Suppresses Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from Chinese Cities

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The Green Finance Pilot Policy Suppresses Green Innovation Efficiency: Evidence from Chinese Cities

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