Environmental Regulation And Innovation: A Panel Data Study

Adam Jaffe and Karen Palmer

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1997, vol. 79, issue 4, 610-619

Abstract: In a 1991 essay in Scientific American, Michael Porter suggested that environmental regulation may have a positive effect on the performance of domestic firms relative to their foreign competitors by stimulating domestic innovation. We examine the stylized facts regarding environmental expenditures and innovation in a panel of manufacturing industries. We find that lagged environmental compliance expenditures have a significant positive effect on R&D expenditures when we control for unobserved industry-specific effects. We find little evidence, however, that industries' inventive output (as measured by successful patent applications) is related to compliance costs. © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: 1997
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