Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104304 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Munich Discussion Paper No. 2010-5
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München
Abstract: 
This essay studies the optimal timing for a firm to adopt a new process innovation in the presence of learning. A policy that has been implemented by governments throughout the world to reduce the cost level of infant industries with positive externalities, is to either subsidize the research of these technologies or their distribution. This model demonstrates how government interventions can affect the optimal timing for adoption of a new technology. Furthermore this essay makes predictions on how the effects change, when the total quantity that can be produced is fixed; the installations of wind powered energy plants exemplify this point. Depending on whether producer rents, consumer rents or early implementation are more important to the government, the model offers the appropriate tools to attain its objective.
Subjects: 
Learning
Process Innovation
Optimal Control
Infant industry
JEL: 
C61
D42
H23
O12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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