The Interactive Effect of Technological Spillovers with Institutional Quality on Environmental Quality in Selected Countries

Jahanfar, Peyman; Shahabadi, Abolfazl; Eskandari Sabzi, Sima

doi:10.22059/jte.2025.387009.1008956

The Interactive Effect of Technological Spillovers with Institutional Quality on Environmental Quality in Selected Countries

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Department of Economics, Miyaneh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Miyaneh, Iran.

² Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22059/jte.2025.387009.1008956

Abstract

The environment has been one of the main and most important concerns and concerns of human societies and obstacles to the sustainable development of countries in the past few decades. Therefore, in recent years, more attention has been paid to the quality and sustainability of the environment. The aim of the present study is to investigate the interactive effect of technological spillover with institutional quality on the environmental quality of selected developed and developing countries using the PSTR regression model during the period 2008-2022. Based on the results of the estimation, the interactive effect of technological spillover with institutional quality on the environmental quality of selected developed and developing countries is symmetric; for selected developed countries, in the high and low regimes of institutional interaction and technology spillover from imports, the ratio of domestic research and development expenditure to GDP, GDP per capita excluding natural resource rents and human capital have a positive and significant effect on environmental performance. For selected developing countries, in the high and low regimes, the interaction of institutions and technological spillovers from imports and gross production free of natural resource rents have a positive and significant effect. In the low regime, human capital has a positive but insignificant effect, but in the high regime, capital has a positive and significant effect on the environmental performance of developing countries, which indicates a different effect resulting from different amounts of natural resource rents in developing countries. Therefore, it is recommended that more emphasis be placed on establishing and strengthening local and state institutions that are responsible for environmental monitoring and management

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