[Retracted] Land Price Distortion, Financial Development, and Regional Innovation

Table 7

Results of financial scale mediating effect test.

Connotation of the model; dependent variable	Total effect lnppatents	Mediating effect (1) fin_scale	Mediating effect (2) lnppatents
Distort	0.0044	−0.0114	0.0045
	(0.002)	(0.011)	(0.002)
fin_scale			0.0015
			(0.000)
Controls	Yes	Yes	Yes
City	Yes	Yes	Yes
Year	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	3,020	3,015	3,011
R-squared	0.779	0.018	0.778
Number of cities	287	287	287
Sobel			−0.816

Notes. Robust standard errors in parentheses; , , and represent the significance level of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively.