Data and Code for: Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Philippe Aghion, INSEAD; Roland Benabou, Princeton University; Ralf Martin, Imperial College London; Alexandra Roulet, INSEAD

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Project Description

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We investigate the effects of consumers' environmental concerns and market
competition on firms' decisions to innovate in "clean" technologies. Agents care about their consumption
and environmental footprint; firms pursue greener products to soften price
competition. Acting as complements, these forces determine R&D, pollution,
and welfare. We test the theory using panel data on patents by 8,562
automobile-sector firms in 41 countries, environmental willingness-to-pay,
and competition. As predicted, exposure to prosocial attitudes fosters clean
innovation, all the more so where competition is strong. Plausible increases
in both together can spur it as much as a large fuel-price increase.

Scope of Project

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      D40 Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: General


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