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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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Title 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
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FVQXMB
 
Creator Neumayer, Eric
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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”.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Pollution control technologies
Environmental regulation
Patents
International technology diffusion
 
Contributor Neumayer, Eric