Table 7 Empirical results of mechanism check.

From: The impact of intellectual property demonstration policies on carbon emission efficiency

Variable

Model (1)

Model (2)

Model (3)

Model (2)

Model (3)

CEE

GTIC

CEE

ISU

CEE

IPDP

0.044***

(0.014)

3.692***

(0.129)

0.029*

(0.015)

0.016***

(0.002)

0.034**

(0.014)

GTIC

  

0.012***

(0.002)

  

ISU

    

0.593***

(0.118)

EDL

− 0.092***

(0.007)

0.469***

(0.066)

− 0.093***

(0.007)

0.048***

(0.001)

− 0.120***

(0.009)

EDL2

0.005***

(0.001)

− 0.027***

(0.005)

0.005***

(0.001)

− 0.002***

(0.000)

0.006***

(0.001)

ER

5.057**

(2.466)

− 82.385***

(22.971)

5.669**

(2.459)

2.376***

(0.358)

3.648

(2.473)

ES

− 0.226***

(0.032)

− 0.542*

(0.306)

− 0.189***

(0.030)

− 0.028***

(0.005)

− 0.209***

(0.032)

PSI

− 0.238***

(0.057)

− 4.260***

(0.535)

− 0.082

(0.053)

− 0.735***

(0.008)

0.198*

(0.104)

Constant

0.871***

(0.038)

3.008***

(0.352)

0.762***

(0.035)

0.711***

(0.005)

0.449***

(0.092)

Observations

3640

3640

3640

3640

3640

  1. IPDP: Intellectual Property Demonstration Policies; CEE: Carbon emission efficiency; GTIC: Green Technological Innovation Capability; ISU: Industrial Structure Upgrade; EDL: Economic Development Level; EDL2: a quadratic term of economic development level; ER: Environmental Regulation; ES: Energy Structure; PSI: Proportion of Secondary Industry. The symbols *, **, and *** denote statistical significance at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively, while the values in parentheses indicate standard errors.