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The Environment and Directed Technical Change : Comment

Hourcade, Jean-Charles; Pottier, Antonin; Etienne, Espagne - 2015

This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed...

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Corruption and Environmental Policy : An Alternative Perspective

Lapatinas, Thanassis - 2011

We construct an overlapping generations model in which agents live through two periods; childhood and adulthood. Each agent makes choices only as an adult, based on her utility that depends on her own consumption and the human capital and environmental quality endowed to her offspring. Entering...

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The Impact of Unilateral Climate Policy with Endogenous Plant Location and Market Size Asymmetry

Sanna Randaccio, Francesca - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of unilateral climate policy on firms' international location strategies in emission-intensive sectors, when countries differ in terms of market size. The cases of partial and total relocation via foreign direct investment are separately considered. A simple...

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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?

Bréchet, Thierry - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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Double Irreversibility and Environmental Policy Design

Pommeret, Aude - 2009

The design of environmental policy typically takes place within a framework in which uncertainty over the future impact of pollution and two different kinds of irreversibilities interact. The first kind of irreversibility concerns the sunk cost of environmental degradation; the second is related...

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Health-Enhancing Activities and the Environment : How Competition for Resources Make the Environmental Policy Beneficial

Pautrel, Xavier - 2010

In a two-period overlapping generations model, this paper demonstrates that the relationship between environmental taxation and economic activity (output level and output growth) becomes inverted-U shaped when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and the private decision of each...

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Directed Technical Change and Climate Policy

Otto, Vincent M. - 2006

develop a forward-looking CGE model that captures empirical links between CO2 emissions associated with energy use, directed … reduce CO2 emissions …

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A Simple Framework for Climate-Change Policy Under Model Uncertainty

Athanasoglou, Stergios - 2017

We propose a novel framework for the economic assessment of climate-change policy. Our main point of departure from existing work is the adoption of a "satisficing", as opposed to optimizing, modeling approach. Along these lines, we place primary emphasis on the extent to which different...

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Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector : Interactions and Outcomes

Fischer, Carolyn - 2014

Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from … correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem … unlikely to enhance welfare when placed alongside sufficient emissions pricing. The desirability of stringent EE policies is …

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