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IJTEF 2024 Vol.15(1): 30-38
DOI: 10.18178/ijtef.2024.15.1.766

A Study on the Impact of Digital Economy on Implied Carbon Emissions from Trade in the Perspective of Global Value Chains

Yinghan Chen
School of Economics and Management, North China University of Technology, Beijing, China
Email: chenyinghan1997@163.com

Manuscript received June 21, 2023; revised July 30, 2023; accepted August 11, 2023; published March 20, 2024.

Abstract—At the intersection of the era of digital economy and the era of global value chains, digital technology and globalization are changing the world economy with explosive speed. This paper focuses on the impact of the development of digital economy on the trade-implied carbon emissions of developing countries under the perspective of global value chain, analyzes the endogenous determinants of trade-implied carbon emissions under the perspective of global value chain by constructing a theoretical model, and then analyzes the mechanism of the digital economy affecting the trade-implied carbon through the structural effect, technological effect, and the value chain upgrading effect under the perspective of global value chain. The two-way fixed effect model is used to test the impact of digital economy on trade-implied carbon under the perspective of global value chains and its mediating effect, and to analyze the heterogeneity. The results of the study show that: the development of digital economy can reduce the trade-implied carbon emissions of developing countries; in the context of economic globalization and the division of labor in the global value chain, the development of digital economy can reduce the trade-implied carbon emissions of developing countries by promoting the upgrading of the industrial structure, upgrading the level of technological development, and facilitating the upgrading of the economy’s position in the global value chain. And the heterogeneity analysis shows that strengthening the construction of digital infrastructure, digital industry and the input of digital factors is conducive to better exerting the inhibiting effect of the development of digital economy on trade-implied carbon emissions. This has important policy implications for developing countries represented by China to promote the development of digital economy, low-carbon transformation and green transformation of export trade.


Keywords—global value chains, digital economy, trade implied carbon, two-way fixed effects model


Cite: Yinghan Chen, " A Study on the Impact of Digital Economy on Implied Carbon Emissions from Trade in the Perspective of Global Value Chains," International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance vol.15, no.1, pp. 30-38, 2024.


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