Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2028179
Sustainable digital economy and trade adjusted carbon emissions: Evidence from China’s provincial data
Qiang Ma
Zeeshan Khan
Muhammad Tariq
Hayriye IŞik
Husam Rjoub
Abstract
The importance of the digital economy and trade adjusted emissions is of great importance to study, especially in case of China.
Since China is the leading exporter of the world and achieving
high economic growth consecutively for the last 2-3 decades, this
study, unlike past studies, evaluates the importance of digital
economy, exports, imports and gross domestic product on trade
adjusted carbon emissions for China. This is the only study that
incorporates the importance of digital economy on trade adjusted
carbon emissions for provincial data of China. This study determines whether the digital economy is a viable source of green
economy. Research and development will simply replace a physical resource, flows through energy and transportation networks?
This question is answered by using updated data, especially for
digital economy. This study uses panel data for the Chinese provinces to investigate the impact of the digital economy in limiting
CO2 emissions, taking into account GDP, exports and imports as
control variables. Using method of moments quantile regression,
we find a negative impact of digital economy and exports on
consumption-based carbon emissions. Moreover, we find that
GDP, and imports amplify consumption-based carbon emissions.
Keywords
Digitalization of economy; trade adjusted carbon emissions; research and development; method of moment quantile regression analysis
Hrčak ID:
302855
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Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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