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Incentives for environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
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Screening green innovation through carbon pricing
Ahlvik, Lassi; Van den Bijgaart, I. M. - 2022
Green innovation is essential for climate change mitigation, but not all innovative projects deliver equal social value …. We consider innovator heterogeneity in a model where the policy maker cannot observe innovation quality and directly … subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device …
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Asymmetric innovation agreements under environmental regulation
Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2017
domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative research joint venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761649
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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013
discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …
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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market
Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021
This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in … for the years 2000-2016. Our results indicate that standards are a very robust driver inducing clean innovation, whereas … negatively impact dirty innovation. …
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Taxes versus cap-and-trade in climate policy when only some fuel importers abate
Strand, Jon - 2010
I study climate policy choices for a "policy bloc" of fuel-importers, when a "fringe" of other fuel importers have no climate policy, fuel exporters consume no fossil fuels, and importers produce no such fuels. The policy bloc and exporter blocs act strategically in fossil fuel markets. When the...
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850134
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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade
Calel, Raphael - 2018
Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788868
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Optimal climate policy under exogenous and endogenous technical change : making sense of the different approaches
Coppens, Léo; Dietz, Simon; Venmans, Frank - 2024
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) provide key inputs to decision-makers on economically efficient climate policies, and technical change is one of the key assumptions in any IAM that estimates mitigation costs. We conduct a systematic survey of how technical change is currently represented in...
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The cost of environmental policy under induced technical change
Smulders, Sjak; Di Maria, Corrado - 2012
. The second issue is whether environmental policy increases or decreases total investment and innovation. Even when … rate of innovation, which crowds out production and consumption, and thus makes environmental policy more costly. Finally … ; innovation policy ; induced technical change ; pollution-saving technical change ; pollution-using technical change ; crowding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571022