, consumption, physical and environmental investment, trading of emissions rights (quantity and price). The results show that … negatively affected by its presence as predicted by the theory (e.g. Clarke and Reed 1994; Tsur and Zemel 1996; and Bosello and …

emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea - recently … first applied game theory analysis of a technology-based climate protocol by assessing: (i) the self-enforcingness (namely … innovation and diffusion than when they cooperate on emission abatement. However, technological cooperation - without any …

and on technological innovation. The extended regime in which cooperation takes place on both dimensions (GHG emissions … technological innovation and diffusion (without targets on emissions). …

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

Non-strategic firms with rational expectations make investment and emissions decisions. The investment rule depends on … taxes create a secondary distortion at the investment stage, unless a particular condition holds; emissions quotas do not …-house gases. The endogeneity of investment favors taxes, and it increases abatement. …

. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides … access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the investment totally sunk, the corporation must account in its plan not … does not affect the investment time trigger but only the feasible bargaining set. Finally, we show that the optimal sharing …

related to the level of investment in irrigation capacity and the other one to the irrigation level in each period. In the … period. Assuming a CARA utility function, we show that taxing the investment may entail an increase in preventive irrigation … although the investment decreases. Moreover, in the case of a logistic production function, the total water use is non …

. Under speed-dependent evolution, a patent-based system will fail to target socially optimal innovation size. The overall … competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …