Bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link, um diese Publikation zu zitieren, oder auf sie als Internetquelle zu verweisen: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24483 
Kompletter Metadatensatz
DublinCore-FeldWertSprache
dc.contributor.authorLöschel, Andreasen
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-16T14:56:39Z-
dc.date.available2009-02-16T14:56:39Z-
dc.date.issued2001-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/24483-
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides an overview of the treatment of technological change in economic models of environmental policy. Numerous economic modeling studies have confirmed the sensitivity of mid- and long-run climate change mitigation cost and benefit projections to assumptions about technology costs. In general, technical progress is considered to be a noneconomic, exogenous variable in global climate change modeling. However, there is overwhelming evidence that technological change is not an exogenous variable but to an important degree endogenous, induced by needs and pressures. Hence, some environmenteconomy models treat technological change as endogenous, responding to socio-economic variables. Three main elements in models of technological innovation are: (i) corporate investment in research and development, (ii) spillovers from R&D, and (iii) technology learning, especially learning-by-doing. The incorporation of induced technological change in different types of environmental-economic models tends to reduce the costs of environmental policy, accelerates abatement and may lead to positive spillover and negative leakage.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aZentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) |cMannheimen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aZEW Discussion Papers |x01-62en
dc.subject.jelC50en
dc.subject.jelQ25en
dc.subject.jelO30en
dc.subject.jelC68en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordexogenous technological changeen
dc.subject.keywordinduced technological changeen
dc.subject.keywordenvironmenteconomy modelsen
dc.subject.stwUmweltökonomiken
dc.subject.stwKlimaschutzen
dc.subject.stwTechnischer Fortschritten
dc.subject.stwEndogener technischer Fortschritten
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleTechnological change in economic models of environmental policy: a survey-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn856297151en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:zewdip:5418en

Datei(en):
Datei
Größe
236.65 kB





Publikationen in EconStor sind urheberrechtlich geschützt.