Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22022 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper No. 2007-04
Publisher: 
Kiel University, Department of Economics, Kiel
Abstract: 
We study long-term incentives for polluting and regulated firms to invest in advanced abatement technologies, when some new technology is available but an even better technology will be expected in the future. Firms can invest only once. We find that depending on the adoption fixed costs all possible combinations of investment patters can occur in social optimum. Further we show that if the regulator anticipates the arrival of the new technology he can decentralize socially optimal allocation by charging Pigouvian tax or issuing tradable permits through announcing his policy and setting ex post optimal policy levels, after firms have invested.
Subjects: 
Emission taxes
tradable permits
option value theory
uncertainty
Poisson distribution
JEL: 
Q55
L5
O31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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