On the green and innovative side of trade competitiveness? The impact of environmental policies and innovation on EU exports
On the green and innovative side of trade competitiveness? The impact of environmental policies and innovation on EU exports
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2011.08.004
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发表时间：
2012-02-01
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Mazzanti, Massimiliano
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作者：
Costantini, Valeria;Mazzanti, Massimiliano
本文旨在探讨环境管制和创新对欧盟出口竞争力的影响。从波特的观点出发，即环境政策可以通过诱导技术创新来培养国际竞争力。我们测试了波特假说的强版本和狭义版本，以了解这种良性循环是局限于环境产品部门(尊重狭义标准)，还是蔓延到整个经济体系。为此，我们采用了一个基于理论的引力模型，应用于按技术或环境含量分类的五个制造业集聚部门的出口动态。在检验强版本时，环境政策的总体效应似乎不会损害制造业的出口竞争力，而具体的能源税政策和创新努力正向影响出口流动动态，揭示了一种类似波特的机制。当测试狭隘的强势版本时，环境政策，但更深入的环境创新努力，促进绿色出口。这些结果表明，公共政策和私人创新模式都通过各种互补机制在生产过程中触发了更高的效率，从而将环境保护行动作为生产成本的认知转变为净收益。(C)2011爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
This paper aims at exploring how the export competitiveness of the European Union has been affected by environmental regulation and innovation. Starting from the Porter idea that environmental policies may foster international competitiveness by inducing technological innovation. We test both the strong and narrowly strong versions of the Porter hypothesis, in order to understand if such a virtuous cycle is confined into the environmental goods sector (respecting the narrow criterion) or it spreads out through the whole economic system. For this purpose we adopt a theoretically based gravity model applied to the export dynamics of five aggregated manufacturing sectors classified by their technological or environmental content.When testing the strong version, the overall effect of environmental policies does not seem to be harmful for export competitiveness of the manufacturing sector, whereas specific energy tax policies and innovation efforts positively influence export flows dynamics, revealing a Porter-like mechanism. When testing the narrowly strong version, environmental policies, but more incisively environmental innovation efforts, foster green exports. These results show that public policies and private innovation patterns both trigger higher efficiency in the production process through various complementarity mechanisms, thus turning the perception of environmental protection actions as a production cost into a net benefit. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.