Technology diffusion, abatement cost, and transboundary pollution

Geoffrey Heal and Nori Tarui

No 200803, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies countries’ incentives to develop advanced pollution abatement technology when technology may spillover across countries and pollution abatement is a global public good. We are motivated in part by the problem of global warming: a solution to this involves providing a global public good, and will surely require the development and implementation of new technologies. We show that at the Nash equilibrium of a simultaneous-move game with R&D investment and emission abatement, whether the free rider effect prevails and under-investment and excess emissions occur depends on the degree of technology spillovers and the effect of R&D on the marginal abatement costs. There are cases in which, contrary to conventional wisdom, Nash equilibrium investments in emissions reductions exceed the first-best case.

Keywords: International environmental agreement; pollution abatement costs; endogenous technological change. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 H87 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2008-10-01
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