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We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
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dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed to improving the technology of machines in either sector. We … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
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innovation. in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can be di¢ cult both because clean research must climb …
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innovation - in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can be difficult both because clean research must climb …
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innovation-in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more … technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though … advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can be difficult both because clean research must climb …
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dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both 'carbon taxes' and research subsidies, so that excessive … creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed to improving the technology of machines in either sector. We … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
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environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …
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dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both “carbon taxes” and research subsidies, so that excessive … creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed to improving the technology of machines in either sector. We … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
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reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …
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. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological … current research areas though they may also yield different answers to important questions. It concludes by highlighting …
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