Abstract:Governments have an irreplaceable role in supporting environmental innovation due to market failure. Nevertheless, this article develops the free riding argument that the trade-driven technology transfer incentivizes national governments to underspend on environmental innovation. The data on government environmental research and development (R&D) expenditures and bilateral trade volumes of environmental goods from 32 OECD countries, 1982–2017, are used to substantiate my argument. Spatial regression finds … Show more
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