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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Economics Department Working Paper Series No. 12
Verlag: 
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Braunschweig
Zusammenfassung: 
This article shows that in the presence of environmental externalities, it may be welfare enhancing to overcome a technological lock-in by a deadend technology through governmental intervention. It is socially desirable to subsidize a dead-end technology if its environmental externality is small relative to the one of the established technology, if the installed base and/or the strength of the network effect is small and if future generations matter. Applying our results to the private transport sector, governments promoting alternatives to gasoline-driven vehicles have to be aware of these opposing welfare effects.
Schlagwörter: 
environmental externalities
network effects
private transport
technological change
JEL: 
O33
L92
Q55
Dokumentart: 
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