期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
卷 131, 期 -, 页码 68-83出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.015
关键词
Environmental regulations; Vehicle emission standards; Industrial policy; Automotive industry; Foreign direct investment; Porter hypothesis
资金
- Seed Grant for Basic Research from the University of Hong Kong [104004370]
This paper examines the relationship between vehicle emission standards and local automotive industry performance. The findings indicate that countries with a strong local automotive industry are less likely to adopt stringent emission standards, while an increase in foreign direct investment in the automotive sector increases the chances of adopting such standards. This suggests that the motivations behind vehicle emission standards may not be solely environmental. Additionally, stricter emission standards in OECD member countries tend to promote local automotive output and international vehicle exports with a 3-year time lag.
In this paper, we examine a potential causal link between vehicle emission standards and local automotive industry performance, using a 42-country panel data set covering a 19-year period between 2000 and 2018. Our panel logit analysis shows that having a sizeable local automotive industry decreases the chance of adopting stringent vehicle emission standards, while the stock of automotive FDI increases the chance. This finding suggests that the primary motivations for vehicle emission standards may not be purely environmental. Our follow-up Granger causality test demonstrates that such non-environmental motivations have in fact translated into an actual industry-promotion outcome. Stricter emission standards in OECD member countries tend to promote local automotive output and international vehicle export with a 3-year time lag, while this causal link is limited to up-market exports for non-OECD panels. Automotive FDI hosts with large domestic markets and/or local-brand automakers also present a similar causal link, but in this case significant long-term industry-promotion effects appear only after a short-term negative shock. These results suggest that a regulation-induced short-term efficiency loss may be partly offset by a long-term productivity gain through advance/timely local adoption of cleaner technologies.
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