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Technology Adoption under Negative External Effects

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  • Carbonell-Nicolau Oriol

    (Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 75 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA)

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This paper shows that, in the presence of negative production external effects (e.g., waste, pollution), market-driven technology adoption is socially inefficient. Two distinct market structures are considered within the neoclassical framework: perfect competition and monopoly. In both cases, there is a range of cost structures under which firms prefer the adoption of inferior technologies. A number of policy instruments are considered in terms of their welfare enhancing properties.

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  • Carbonell-Nicolau Oriol, 2024. "Technology Adoption under Negative External Effects," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 24(1), pages 127-157, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejtec:v:24:y:2024:i:1:p:127-157:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/bejte-2022-0089
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    Keywords

    external effects; technology adoption; planned obsolescence; quotas; Pigouvian taxation;
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    JEL classification:

    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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