Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation
Exploiting China’s high-speed rail (HSR) as a quasi-natural experiment, we examine the relationship between the HSR connection and green innovation. The opening of HSR can promote green innovation by facilitating the flow of innovation factors. Using the multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) m...
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| description | Exploiting China’s high-speed rail (HSR) as a quasi-natural experiment, we examine the relationship between the HSR connection and green innovation. The opening of HSR can promote green innovation by facilitating the flow of innovation factors. Using the multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) model, we find that the regional green innovation performance significantly becomes better following the opening of HSR in the local city. Moreover, in examining the specific mechanisms at work, we find evidence that HSR stimulates green patents through increased labor mobility and research capital mobility. Further analyses show that the facilitating effect of HSR is heterogeneous among cities. Our paper sheds new light on the effects of HSR on social welfare in the case of sustainable economy. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c84d2dc9b3624778bc7fc13c78f3ace72025-08-20T03:23:57ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation2042-31952021-01-01202110.1155/2021/9705982Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green InnovationZixuan Zhu0Xiaoyan Lin1Hao Yang2Beijing Jiaotong UniversityBeijing Jiaotong UniversityBeijing Jiaotong UniversityExploiting China’s high-speed rail (HSR) as a quasi-natural experiment, we examine the relationship between the HSR connection and green innovation. The opening of HSR can promote green innovation by facilitating the flow of innovation factors. Using the multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) model, we find that the regional green innovation performance significantly becomes better following the opening of HSR in the local city. Moreover, in examining the specific mechanisms at work, we find evidence that HSR stimulates green patents through increased labor mobility and research capital mobility. Further analyses show that the facilitating effect of HSR is heterogeneous among cities. Our paper sheds new light on the effects of HSR on social welfare in the case of sustainable economy.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9705982 |
| spellingShingle | Zixuan Zhu Xiaoyan Lin Hao Yang Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation Journal of Advanced Transportation |
| title | Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation |
| title_full | Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation |
| title_fullStr | Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation |
| title_short | Booming with Speed: High-Speed Rail and Regional Green Innovation |
| title_sort | booming with speed high speed rail and regional green innovation |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9705982 |
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