We show that for a broad class of technologies the relationship between policy stringency and the rate of technology adoption is inverted U-shaped. This happens when the marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves of conventional and new technologies intersect, which invariably occurs when emissions...

Under the Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Convention Parties may participate in international emissions trading. For individual Parties this raises the question of whether to implement domestic emissions trading regimes in order to ease the transition process to an international regime. The...

Am 20. September hat die Bundesregierung die Einführung eines nationalen CO2 -Preises beschlossen. Sie hat sich dabei für eine Preisregulierung entschieden, die ab dem Jahr 2026 weitgehend durch eine Mengenregulierung ersetzt wird. Der vorliegende Artikel schlägt vor, Preis- und Mengenziel...

In this paper we survey the theoretical literature on both pollution-reducing and resource-saving technological progress. The literature can be divided into two strands. One strand deals with microeconomic models which investigate incentives to adopt and to develop environmentally more friendly...