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Climate Agreements and Technology Policy

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  • Michael Hoel

    (Department of Economics, University of Oslo)

  • Rolf Golombek

    (Frisch Centre)

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We study climate policy when there are technology spillovers within and across countries, and the technology externalities within each country are corrected through a domestic subsidy of R&D investments. We compare the properties of international climate agreements when the inter-country externalities from R&D are not regulated through the climate agreement. With an international agreement controlling abatements directly through emission quotas, the equilibrium R&D subsidy is lower that the socially optimal subsidy. The equilibrium subsidy is even lower if the climate agreement does not specify emission levels directly, but instead imposes a common carbon tax. Social costs are higher under a tax agreement than under a quota agreement. Moreover, for a reasonable assumption on the abatement cost function, R&D investments and abatement levels are lower under a tax agreement than under a quota agreement. Total emissions may be higher or lower in a second-best optimal quota agreement than in the first-best optimum.

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Paper provided by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in its series Working Papers with number 2004.90.

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Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2004.90

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Keywords: Climate policy; International environmental agreements; R&D Policy; Technology spillovers;

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Cited by:
  1. Michael Hoel & Rolf Golombek, 2006. "Endogenous Technology and Tradable Emission Quotas," Working Papers 2006.42, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
  2. Alistair Ulph & David Ulph, 2007. "Climate change—environmental and technology policies in a strategic context," Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 37(1), pages 159-180, May.

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