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Dec 20, 2024 | mdpi.com | Min Chen

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Oct 25, 2024 | mdpi.com | Cheng Wang |Xiang-Yu Huang |Min Chen |Yaodeng Chen

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Oct 24, 2024 | mdpi.com | Huan Hu |Chang Wang |Min Chen

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Oct 23, 2024 | pynck.com | Richard Whiddington |Katya Kazakina |Min Chen |Tim Brinkhof

Work of the Week: This Painting Lost 90 Percent of Its Value in Exactly One YearRobert Rauschenberg’s Radical Project to Bring Together Artists and Engineers Gets the Getty SpotlightAmber Was So Coveted 5,000 Years Ago, People Made Fake Versions of ItA.I. Art Sensation Botto Rings in Its Third Year With a Sotheby’s SaleThe Red Wings Hockey Team Has a ‘Ferris Bueller’ Moment at the Detroit Institute of ArtsThis 19th Century Painting of England’s Tragic Teen Queen Has Found a New Audience.

Oct 13, 2024 | nature.com | Ying Zhang |Min Chen |Shen Zhong |Mingyu Liu

Against the backdrop of digitization and global warming, fintech plays a crucial role in accelerating the growth of green finance, driving innovation in the financial industry, and catalyzing the low-carbon transformation of economic activities. This paper utilizes city panel data from 2007 to 2019 to examine the direct impact of fintech on carbon emission efficiency (CEE), the transmission channels of green technological innovation and green finance, and the spatial spillover effects, using dynamic panel models, mediation effect models, and dynamic spatial Durbin models (SDM). The study finds that: (i) Fintech significantly improves CEE, and this conclusion remains robust after accounting for potential endogeneity issues and conducting robustness tests. (ii) Mechanism analysis reveals that green finance and green technological innovation are the primary channels through which fintech influences CEE. (iii) Results from the dynamic SDM model indicate that fintech has a significant positive spatial spillover effect on CEE, with the long-term spillover effect being smaller than the short-term spillover effect. (iv) Heterogeneity analysis reveals that fintech’s improvement effect on CEE is mainly evident in eastern regions, emerging first-tier and first-tier cities, and non-resource-based cities. Our research provides new insights for policymakers on achieving China’s dual-carbon goals through the promotion of fintech development, green finance, and green technological innovation. It also aids in the coordinated development of fintech among cities and the formulation of differentiated policies, providing a theoretical foundation and empirical support for future research.