Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: evidence from automobile patents
Dechezlepretre, A., Neumayer, E.
& Perkins, R.
(2015).
Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: evidence from automobile patents.
Research Policy,
44(1), 244-257.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.017
& Perkins, R.
(2015).
Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: evidence from automobile patents.
Research Policy,
44(1), 244-257.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.017
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”.
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- GE Environmental Sciences
- HC Economic History and Conditions
- TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
- TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
- O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q53 - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
- Q55 - Technological Innovation
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Neumayer, E.
(2017).
Replication Data for: Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: Evidence from automobile patents (with Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Richard Perkins), Research Policy, 44 (1), 2015, pp. 244-257.
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