New Quality Productive Forces: The Role of Green Finance and Artificial Intelligence in Finance

Dear Colleagues,

The International Journal of Financial Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue on new quality productive forces.

Characterized by innovation, new quality productive forces are essentially advanced productivity. These forces represent a departure from traditional economic growth models and are in line with China’s new development philosophy, prioritizing sustainability and innovation, with green financial tools and artificial intelligence (AI) applications in finance playing important roles, respectively. The functional methodologies include environmentally friendly, high-tech, efficient, and high-quality productivity methods. Therefore, the focus of this Special Issue is twofold given the background of new quality productive forces. On one hand, it emphasizes the shift in investment patterns to the new measures being implemented to support green finance, such as green bond standards, green bond grant schemes, green loans, sustainability disclosure, and reporting requirements. On the other hand, we call for studies on the use of AI-driven technologies, which could have a profound impact on the way in which high-productive firms operate and manage risk. The more efficient processing of information can also contribute to a more efficient financial system, as well as to regulatory compliance and supervisory frameworks that serve all the elements mentioned above.

The Guest Editors welcome original articles, reviews, case studies, and conceptual papers that provide novel insights into the green finance- and artificial intelligence-related aspects of new quality productive forces. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theoretical framework of new quality productive forces;
• The dynamics of total factor productivity and economic growth transition;
• The multi-layered, steadily increasing, and unbalanced development of new quality productive forces at the provincial level;
• The optimization and upgrading of supply chains, the cultivation of emerging and future industries, and the growth of the digital economy;
• Financial services and new quality industrial chains;
• Finance issues in digital assets, data assetization, high-end manufacturing, biotechnology, smart electronic cars, and energy transformation;
• Green finance conceptual framework, standards, and guidelines at the international, national, provincial, and enterprise levels;
• Green finance growth, market development, and entrance barriers;
• Government and policies that stimulate demand for green finance;
• Public versus private green finance tools and vehicles;
• Green finance, corporate governance, and risk management;
• Disruptive innovation and financial support;
• The extent to which fintech can drive innovation by providing more efficient and convenient financial services;
• Digital intelligence technology, financial investment, and sustainable development;
• The utilization of AI by high-tech firms in corporate finance and asset pricing and its corresponding impact on key business decisions;
• The use of AI to facilitate new quality productive forces to generate financial market and macroeconomic implications by industry participants.

All submissions must be original and not under consideration by any other journal or publication. Manuscripts should be submitted via The International Journal of Financial Studies’ online submission system and must comply with the journal's author guidelines. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review process to ensure the quality and relevance of the papers selected for publication.

We appreciate your submissions and eagerly anticipate your contributions to this exciting project.

Dr. Xiang Gao
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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• new quality productive forces
• new quality industrial and supply chains
• sustainable development
• green finance
• disruptive innovation
• digital intelligence technology
• artificial intelligence