 Global warming and technical change: Multiple steady-states and policy optionsAnton Bondarev () and Alfred Greiner China Economic Review, 2020, vol. 62, issue C Abstract: We develop an economic growth model that incorporates anthropogenic climate change and a publicly funded research sector that creates new technologies and simultaneously expands the productivities of existing technologies. Greenhouse gas emissions are affected by R&D activities both negatively, through the increase of output from productivity growth, and positively as new technologies are less polluting. We find that there may exist two different steady-states of the economy, depending on the amount of research spending: one with less new technologies being developed and the other with more technologies. Thus, a lock-in effect can arise that, however, can be overcome by raising R&D spending sufficiently such that the steady-state becomes unique. We derive the combinations of fiscal policy instruments for which that can be achieved and we study the implications for the economy and with respect to emissions. In particular, the double dividend hypothesis may hold under some specific conditions. Keywords: Greenhouse gases; Doubly-differentiated R&D; Double dividend; Fiscal policy; Technology lock-in; Public spending (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:chieco:v:62:y:2020:i:c:s1043951x20301085 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101511 Access Statistics for this article China Economic Review is currently edited by B.M. Fleisher, K. X. D. Huang, M.E. Lovely, Y. Wen, X. Zhang and X. Zhu More articles in China Economic Review from Elsevier |
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