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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market
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This paper investigates the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on technological change, exploiting installations level inclusion criteria to estimate the System’s causal impact on firms’ patenting. We find that the EU ETS has increased low-carbon innovation among regulated firms by as much as 10%, while not crowding out patenting for other technologies. We also find evidence that the EU ETS has not affected patenting beyond the set of regulated companies. These results imply that the EU ETS accounts for nearly a 1% increase in European low-carbon patenting compared to a counterfactual scenario.
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“In all, the EU ETS accounts for only 1% of the surge in low-carbon patenting, depicted in .”
From Why does emissions trading under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) not affect firms' competitiveness? Empirical findings from the literature (2019) · cites this paper as Calel & Dechezleprêtre, 2016
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“In fact, it has been demonstrated elsewhere that EU ETS-regulated firms reacted to the introduction of the policy by filing 30% more patents in lowcarbon technologies compared to a counterfactual scenario (Calel and Dechezlepr ˆ etre, 2016).”
From The joint impact of the European Union emissions trading system on carbon emissions and economic performance (2023) · cites this paper as Calel and Dechezlepr ˆ etre, 2016
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“This percentage drops to 8.1% when extrapolating results to the whole non-matched sample of EU ETS firms, covering 80% of regulated emissions.”
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“The overall contribution of China’s pilot ETS to regional low-carbon innovation was similar to that of the EU ETS22.”
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“Data about patent filing, instead of patent granted, have been used in the analysis, following the previous innovation research in Europe and China22,39,41,43.”
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“Most have identified a positive relationship, attributed to the carbon pricing mechanism, which creates direct financial incentives for regulated firms to invest in low- carbon technologies (Calel and Dechezleprêtre 2016)”
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“The evidence shows that the system boosted low-carbon patenting by 36.2% among regulated firms relative to non-regulated ones.”
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“In parallel, they show that the EU ETS did not crowd out patenting for other technologies and even encouraged it moderately.”
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“Calel and Dechezleprêtre (Citation2016) do not find evidence of the EU ETS causing spill-over effects on third parties’ patenting activity, implying a limited scope of innovation effects, so far.”
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“Innovation and investment in low-carbon technologies are essential to influence long-term abatement and create a sustainable low-carbon path (Calel & Dechezleprêtre, Citation2016; Martin, Muûls, & Wagner, Citation2013; Pizer & Popp, Citation2008).”
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“Interestingly, the disaggregated level of data shows the strong reaction of a small group of firms.”
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“the EU ETS, in comparison, led to two additional low-carbon patents filed per firm in five years22.”
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“The empirical literature confirms that increased energy price20, carbon tax21, and the EU ETS22 can facilitate low-carbon innovation.”
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“The second step applied a nonparametric Tobit-modified empirical-likelihood-based DID estimator that has been used in estimating the effect of the EU ETS22.”
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“These studies document the positive impact of the EU- ETS on business innovation”
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“Calel and Dechezleprêtre (2016), who observed small and statistically nonsignificant spillover effects.”
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- Authors
- Calel, R., & Dechezleprêtre, A.
- Affiliations
- Georgetown University (US)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Venue
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2016-03
- Volume
- 98
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 173-191
- ISSN
- 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9142
- OpenAlex
- W3122318714
- Cited by
- 1,147
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 227 · 2025: 151 · 2024: 161 · 2023: 134 · 2022: 139 · 2021: 80 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 69 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 20
- FWCI
- 52.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Review of Economics and Statistics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K006576/1, ES/I015760/1, PTA-026-27-2756, ES/M010341/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Intellectual Property and Patents
- Keywords
- EU Emissions Trading System, carbon pricing, environmental policy, directed technological change, low-carbon innovation, patenting, crowding out, emissions regulation, European Union
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