Journal
RESEARCH POLICY
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 244-257Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.017
Keywords
Pollution control technologies; Environmental regulation; Patents; International technology diffusion
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- ESRC [ES/H02123X/1, ES/K006576/1, ES/I015760/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/I015760/1, ES/H02123X/1, ES/K006576/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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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. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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