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Commitment and Timing of Environmental Policy, Adoption of New Technology and Repercussions on R&D

Till Requate (requate@economics.uni-kiel.de)

No 2003-07, Economics Working Papers from Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Department of Economics

Abstract: We investigate the interplay between environmental policy, incentives to adopt new technology, and repercussions on R&D. We study a model where a monopolistic upstream firm engages in R&D and sells advanced abatement technology to polluting downstream firms which are subject to regulation. We consider for different timing and commitment regimes of environmental tax and permit policies: ex post taxation (or issuing permits) ex interim commitment to a tax rate (a quota of permits) after observing R&D success but before adaption, and two types of ex ante commitment before R&D activity. We study the second best tax and permit rules and rank the policies with respect to welfare.

Date: 2003
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