A theory-based discussion of international technology funding

Michael Hübler

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2015, vol. 17, issue 2, 313-327

Abstract: Recent Conferences of the UNFCCC Parties (COP) emphasized international technology funding as a means of achieving carbon emissions reductions in developing countries. Such funds are now being realized. Nonetheless, this paper is possibly the first theory-based discussion of international technology funding. It sets up an intuitive Ramsey model of a developing economy including imports of capital and embodied technologies from abroad. Going beyond a scale, technique and composition effect, it disentangles five relevant effects and four technology-related policy levers and their interactions. It then discusses their role in designing an international technology fund with the aim to reduce emissions efficiently. The paper concludes that it is inefficient to address emissions reductions independent of the technological absorptive capacity and other aspects of economic development. Therefore, it opts for an integrated technology funding scheme. Copyright Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and Springer Japan 2015

Keywords: Technology fund; Technology transfer; Climate policy; F21; O11; O33; O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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