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Environmental and technology policy options in the electricity sector : interactions and outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - 2014
renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380638
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Directed Technical Change with Capital-Embodied Technologies : Implications for Climate Policy
Witajewski, Jan - 2014
We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048403
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Environmental regulation and innovation in renewable energy technologies : does the policy instrument matter?
Hille, Erik; Althammer, Wilhelm; Diederich, Henning - 2019 - Version February 24, 2019
We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230967
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Threshold policy effects and directed technical change in energy innovation
Nesta, Lionel; Verdolini, Elena; Vona, Francesco - 2018
This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over … second regime, market-based policies are moderately effective in promoting renewable innovation, while command …-and-control policies depress fossil based innovation. Finally, market-based policies are more effective to consolidate a green comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794506
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Threshold Policy Effects and Directed Technical Change in Energy Innovation
Nesta, Lionel; Verdolini, Elena; Vona, Francesco - 2018
This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over … second regime, market-based policies are moderately effective in promoting renewable innovation, while command …-and-control policies depress fossil based innovation. Finally, market-based policies are more effective to consolidate a green comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115284
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Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments
Armitage, Sarah C.; Bakhtian, Noël; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337854
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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015
This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519926
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Innovation and Climate Change Policy
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
This paper examines the notion that more stringent climate change policies will induce innovation in environmentally … friendly technologies. While past work has raised the concern that such policies may stimulate such innovation at the expense … of innovation elsewhere in the economy, the model presented here challenges the presumption that environmentally friendly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208374
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Chapter 21. Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change
Popp, David; Newell, Richard G.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2010
Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025150
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Cities and green growth : the case of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area
2013
, the working paper considers the role of workforce, innovation and governance policies, focusing on skill shortages and … skill mismatches in the regional labour market, ways to make the most of the region's innovation assets, and opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767306