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Environmental Regulation and the Cross-Border Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from Automobile PatentsAntoine DechezleprêtreLondon School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) Richard PerkinsLondon School of Economics - Department of Geography and Environment Eric NeumayerLondon School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) June 19, 2012 Research Policy, Forthcoming Abstract: 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”.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 53 Keywords: Pollution Control Technologies, Environmental Regulation, Patents, International Technology Diffusion JEL Classification: O33, Q53, Q55 Date posted: June 19, 2012 ; Last revised: July 18, 2014Suggested CitationContact Information
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