Environmental Regulation and the Cross-Border Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from Automobile Patents
By Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Eric Neumayer, Richard Perkins. 2015
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We examine the impact of environmental regulation on the international diffusion of new technology through the patent system. We employ a dataset of automobile emission standards between 1992 and 2007 and corresponding data on cross-border patent inflows of technologies developed to comply with these standards. Our analysis, based on a research design of country pair years, shows it is “regulatory distance” between countries rather than absolute regulatory stringency per se that matters for cross-border patent inflows: the flow of compliance technologies rises when regulatory standards in the inventor and the recipient countries become “closer”.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation
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- Income inequality and carbon consumption: Evidence from Environmental Engel curves (2019, background): “A key motivation for consumption-based emissions accounting is the quantification of so-called “carbon leakage”, describing the carbon emissions embedded in trade between producing and consuming countries (see surveys by Wiedmann, 2009; Sato, 2014).”
- Path dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change (2014, background): “Moreover, Dechezleprêtre et al. (2012) provide evidence to the effect that technology transfers work best among countries at similar development levels.”
- Environmental policies and productivity growth: a critical review of empirical findings (2015, background): “Environmental policies can also promote foreign innovation (Dechezleprêtre and Glachant, 2014) and technology transfer (e.g. in the automobile sector, Dechezleprêtre et al., 2013).”