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Author-Name: Los, Bart
Author-Email: b.los@rug.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Groningen Growth and Development Centre, and University
	 of Groningen
Author-Name: Verspagen, Bart
Author-Email: b.verspagen@algec.unimaas.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Title: Localized Innovation, Localized Diffusion and the Environment: An Analysis of CO2 
	 Emission Reductions by Passenger Cars, 2000-2007
Abstract: We investigate technological change with regard to CO2 emissions by  
	 passenger cars, using a Free Disposal Hull methodology to estimate  
	 technological frontiers. We have a  sample of cars available in the UK  
	 market in the period 2000 – 2007. Our results show that the rates of  
	 technological change (frontier movement) and diffusion (distance to  
	 frontier at the car brand level) differ substantial between segments of  
	 the car market. We conclude that successful policies should be aimed at  
	 diffusion of best-practice technology, and take account of the different  
	 potential for further progress between different segments of the market  
	 (e.g., diesel and gasoline engines, and small vs. large engines).
Classification-JEL: Q55, O31, O33 
Keywords: CO2 emissions by cars, technological change, diffusion of innovations
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 2008-037
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-037.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008037