Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: : Evidence from automobile patents

• Autores: Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Eric Neumayer, Richard Perkins
• Localización: Research Policy, ISSN-e 1873-7625, Vol. 44, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 244-257
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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�.