Measurement and spatiotemporal characteristics of China's green finance

To study the extent of green finance development in China, this article constructs a green finance index system and employs the entropy value method to measure China's green finance by using a yearly provincial panel data from 2001 to 2020. The Thiel and Moran indices are then used to systematically analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of China's regional green finance. The findings are summarized as follows. Firstly, the overall green finance index in China experiences an upward trend. The development of green finance in the eastern region is superior to that in other regions in terms of absolute value and growth rate. Moreover, the differences in China's green finance index have shown an increasing trend over the last two decades, which is mostly contributed by the intra-regional differences. Finally, the inter-regional distribution of green finance index demonstrates that green finance development has a spatial spillover effect.