Digitalization and carbon emission reduction technology R&D in a Stackelberg model

Chaoqun Sun, Junlong Chen, Bohong He and Jiali Liu

Applied Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 32, issue 13, 1881-1886

Abstract: This paper constructs a four-stage sequential game model considering digitalization and carbon emission reduction decisions, examines the effects of digitalization on firms’ emission reduction and carbon emission reduction technology R&D, and analyzes the optimal digitalization level. The results show that emissions reduction is correlated with the digitalization level, the cost-reduction effects, and the carbon tax rate; technology R&D benefits from digitalization support; there exists an optimal digitalization level that is nonlinearly affected by the carbon tax rate, and the digitalization level that satisfies the maximization of social welfare is higher, so the government should provide digitalization incentives.

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13504851.2024.2331659 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:32:y:2025:i:13:p:1881-1886

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RAEL20

DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2024.2331659

Access Statistics for this article

Applied Economics Letters is currently edited by Anita Phillips

More articles in Applied Economics Letters from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().