ICT service exports and CO2 emissions in OECD countries: the moderating effect of regulatory quality

IF 4 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Change and Restructuring Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI:10.1007/s10644-024-09685-y

Umair Kashif, Junguo Shi, Snovia Naseem, Shanshan Dou, Zohaib Zahid

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Abstract

This research assesses the impact of information communication technology (ICT) service exports on carbon (CO₂) emissions and examines regulatory quality’s moderating role. The study sample comprises OECD countries’ data from 2001 to 2019. Random-effect generalized least-square regression, feasible generalized least square, and panel-corrected standard error models are used for the estimations. The results show that ICT service exports are negatively related to CO₂ emissions, and the negative effect of ICT on CO₂ emissions will be enhanced when regulatory quality is higher. OECD countries should give greater support to improve the innovation capabilities of ICT companies and implement more sound policies and regulations to achieve sustainable development goals and carbon neutrality.

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经合组织国家的信息和通信技术服务出口与二氧化碳排放：监管质量的调节作用

本研究评估了信息通信技术（ICT）服务出口对碳（CO2）排放的影响，并考察了监管质量的调节作用。研究样本包括经合组织国家 2001 年至 2019 年的数据。采用随机效应广义最小二乘法回归、可行广义最小二乘法和面板校正标准误差模型进行估计。结果表明，ICT 服务出口与二氧化碳排放负相关，当监管质量较高时，ICT 对二氧化碳排放的负效应会增强。经合组织国家应加大支持力度，提高 ICT 企业的创新能力，实施更加完善的政策法规，以实现可持续发展目标和碳中和。

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Economic Change and Restructuring ECONOMICS-

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4.80

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6.50%

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期刊介绍： Economic Change and Restructuring has been accepted for SSCI and will get its first Impact Factor in 2020!Since the early 1990s fundamental changes in the world economy, under the auspices of increasing globalisation, have taken place On one hand, the disappearance of the centrally planned economies and the progressive formation of market-oriented economies, have brought about countless systematic changes, where new economic structures, institutions, competences and skills involve complex processes, changes which are still underway and which necessitate adaptation and restructuring to form competitive market economies. On the other hand, many developing economies are making great strides as regards economic reform and liberalisation, and are emerging as new global players. They show an innovative capacity to position themselves in the global economy and to compete with industrialised countries, which are generally believed to be witnessing the rapid erosion of their established positions. These developments are accompanied by the exacerbation of the world competition. Both processes involve transition and the emerging economies, in searching for a new role and scope for public policies and for a new balance between public and private partnership, seem to currently be converging, especially with respect to the policies needed to create appropriate and effective market institutions and integrated reform policies, and to increase the standards of the population''s education levels. Thus, liberalisation and development policies, in attempting to strike a difficult balance between social and environmental needs, must be integrated more coherently. This complexity calls for new analytical and empirical approaches that can explain these new phenomena, which often go beyond the over-simplified facts and conventional ''wisdom'' that emerged at the start of the transition in the early 1990s. Economic Change and Restructuring (formerly ''Economics of Planning''), by keeping abreast of developments affecting both transitional and emerging economies, is aimed to attract original empirical and policy analysis contributions that are focused on various issues, including macroeconomic analysis, fiscal issues, finance and banking, industrial and trade development, and regional and local development issues. The journal aspires to publish cutting edge research and to serve as a forum for economists and policymakers working in these fields.Officially cited as: Econ Change Restruct