LOBBIES AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
LOBBIES AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
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DOI：
10.1162/rest.91.2.229
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Hobijn, Bart
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作者：
Comin, Diego;Hobijn, Bart
本文探讨游说团体是否会减缓技术扩散。为了回答这个问题，我们利用了各种制度属性的差异效应，当新技术具有技术上接近的前身时，这些属性应该会影响建立壁垒的成本，但其他情况则不然。我们使用涵盖过去两个世纪 23 个国家 20 种技术传播的数据集来实施此测试。我们发现，与不存在此类技术时相比，影响建立壁垒成本的每个相关制度变量对具有竞争性先行技术的技术扩散的影响要大得多。这些影响在数量上很重要。因此，我们得出的结论是，游说团体是技术采用和发展的重要障碍。
This paper explores whether lobbies slow down technology diffusion. To answer this question, we exploit the differential effect of various institutional attributes that should affect the costs of erecting barriers when the new technology has a technologically close predecessor but not otherwise. We implement this test using a data set that covers the diffusion of twenty technologies for 23 countries over the past two centuries. We find that each of the relevant institutional variables that affect the costs of erecting barriers has a significantly larger effect on the diffusion of technologies with a competing predecessor technology than when no such technology exists. These effects are quantitatively important. Thus, we conclude that lobbies are an important barrier to technology adoption and to development.