Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; Hémous, David; Liu, Ernest - 2024
even in the presence of Pigouvian environmental taxation, a targeted industrial policy is generally necessary to implement … the social optimum. We also show that: (i) small, targeted, industrial policy may bring large welfare gains; (ii) a … reduction, and show that, absent industrial policy, the economy can get stuck in a "wrong" steady-state with CO2 emissions …