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Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2021

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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Asymmetric Innovation Agreements Under Environmental Regulation

Aoyama, Naoto - 2018

domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative research joint venture …

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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 …

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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....

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Environmental Policy Design and the Fragmentation of International Markets for Innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - CESifo - 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 …

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Environmental Policy Design and the Fragmentation of International Markets for Innovation

Johnstone, Nick - 2014

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The Role of Standards in Eco-Innovation : Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2021

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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Optimal Environmental Policy with Network Effects: Will Pigovian Taxation Lead to Excess Inertia?

Greaker, Mads; Midttømme, Kristoffer - CESifo - 2014

We study a dynamic model with two competing durable goods; one dirty, the other clean. Due to network effects a consumer who adopts the dirty good today will increase the incentive future consumers have to adopt the dirty good. Thus, a consumer who chooses the dirty good, in a sense causes more...

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The Search for Abatement Technologies in the Alberta Oil Sands

Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Leach, … - CESifo - 2014

standard. We also show that while expected incentives for innovation are comparable under emissions taxes and tradeable permit …

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The Cost of Environmental Policy under Induced Technical Change

Smulders, Sjak; Maria, Corrado Di - CESifo - 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 …

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