绿色金融、环境规制是否推动长江经济带产业结构优化？

Do Green Finance and Environmental Regulations Promote the Optimization of the Industrial Structure of the Yangtze River Economic Belt?

摘要: 实现产业结构优化是保障经济不断迈向更高层级的重要支撑。本文利用长江经济带11个省市2005~2020年的面板数据，对绿色金融与环境规制对产业结构优化的作用影响进行研究。研究结果表明：绿色金融、环境规制显著促进产业结构高级化，考虑两者交互项后对产业结构合理化作用方向不变且转为强烈显著；且存在明显的区域异质性特征。最后，基于研究结果，对长江经济带产业结构优化提出相关政策建议。

Abstract: Achieving industrial structure optimization is an important support to ensure that the economy keeps moving to a higher level. In this paper, the panel data of 11 provinces and cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2005 to 2020 are used to study the effects of green finance and environmental regulation on the optimization of industrial structure. The results of the study show that green finance and environmental regulation significantly promote the advanced industrial structure, and after considering the interaction term of the two, the direction of their effects on the rationalization of industrial structure remains unchanged and becomes strongly significant; and there are obvious regional heterogeneity characteristics. Finally, based on the results of the study, relevant policy recommendations are proposed for the optimization of industrial structure in the Yangtze River Economic Belt.