Exploring the development trend of internet finance in China: Perspective from club convergence

The Current Situation and Hidden Dangers of Internet Finance in China

“…Another sort of crowd fundraising has a return on investment (ROI). Through acquiring goods or services, the investor made a financial investment in the project or firm [8]. Ownership crowd financing is the third form.…”

Envisaging the carbon emissions efficiency of digitalization: The case of the internet economy for China

“…First, the Internet economy accelerates the speed of knowledge sharing, promotes economic growth (Litvinenko, 2020), and accelerates the iterative update of technology, thereby reducing energy consumption and pollution emissions, and improving CEE levels. Second, the Internet has given birth to emerging industries such as Internet finance, Internet energy, and the Internet industry, which not only enhances the vitality of the economy, but also improves industrial efficiency, promotes the development of low-carbon industries, and increases the level of CEE (Bai et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2022b). Third, the Internet has significantly promoted industrial upgrading, increased the proportion of high-tech industries, realized the digital penetration of traditional industries, accelerated industrial integration, and improved the level of CEE (Wang et al, 2022b;Yang and Wang, 2022).…”

Research on the Spatial Correlation and Influence Factors of Regional Internet Finance in China

“…The β-conditional convergence and log-T regression test are applied to analyze the convergence characteristics of Internet finance development in 335 Chinese prefecture-level cities. It is found that there are no convergence characteristics in the development level of Internet finance in China on the whole, and there are significant differences in the development level and growth rate of Internet among the seven aggregates (Bai et al, 2021).…”