Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192690 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 708
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Asymmetric regulation of a global pollutant between countries can alter the competitiveness of industries and lead to emissions leakage. For most types of pollution, abatement technologies are available for firms to produce with lower emissions. However, the suppliers of those technologies tend to be less than perfectly competitive, particularly when both emissions regulations and advanced technologies are new. In this context of twin market failures, we consider the relative effects and desirability of subsidies for abatement technology. We find a more robust recommendation for upstream subsidies than for downstream subsidies. Downstream subsidies tend to increase global abatement technology prices, reduce pollution abatement abroad and increase emission leakage. On the contrary, upstream subsidies reduce abatement technology prices, and hence also emissions leakage.
Subjects: 
Emissions leakage
Abatement subsidies
Upstream technology market
JEL: 
Q54
H23
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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