Table 10 Results of the mediating effect of GTFP on the GPT policy.

From: Synergy pathway innovation of carbon emission trading, tradable green certificate and green power trading policies: achieving China’s dual carbon goals

Variable name

lnREG

GTFP

lnREG

lnPREG

lnPREG

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

GTFP

  

0.6894*** (0.2157)

 

0.0820 (0.1006)

\(pos{t}_{GPT}\)

0.4471*** (0.0620)

0.0508*** (0.0146)

0.4121*** (0.0622)

0.2115*** (0.0285)

0.2074*** (0.0290)

Control variable

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Province fixed effect

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Constant

−52.5464*** (6.6570)

−4.6153*** (1.5642)

−49.3644*** (6.6526)

−0.9714 (3.0649)

−0.5927 (3.1011)

Sobel test

  

0.0350** (0.0149)

 

0.0042 (0.0052)

Size of mediation effect

  

0.0350

 

0.0041

Share of intermediation effect

  

0.0783

 

0.0197

Sample size

420

420

420

420

420

R2

0.9316

0.8192

0.9334

0.8334

0.8336

  1. Standard errors are in brackets; *** and ** indicate significant at the 1% and 5% levels respectively.