Endogenous technology and tradable emission quotas

Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel ()

No 03/2006, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We study an international climate agreement that assigns emission quotas to each participating country. Unlike the simplest models in the literature, we assume that abatement costs are affected by R&D activities undertaken in all firms in all countries, i.e. abatement technologies are endogenous. In line with the Kyoto agreement we assume that the international climate agreement does not include R&D policies. We show that for a secondbest agreement, marginal costs of abatement should exceed the Pigovian level. Moreover, marginal costs of abatement differ across countries in the second-best quota agreement with heterogeneous countries. In other words, the second-best outcome cannot be achieved if emission quotas are tradable.

Keywords: Climate policy; international climate agreements; emission quotas; technology spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 O30 Q20 Q25 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2006-02-17
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Journal Article: Endogenous technology and tradable emission quotas (2008)
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