Arbeitspapier
Carbon Leakage Revisited: Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change
A common critique to the Kyoto Protocol is that the reduction in emissions of CO2 by countries who comply with it will be (partly) offset by the increase in emissions on the part of other countries (carbon leakage). This paper analyzes the effect of technical change on carbon leakage in a two-country model where only one of the countries enforces an exogenous cap on emissions. Climate policy induces changes in relative prices, which cause carbon leakage through a terms-of-trade effect. However, these changes in relative prices in addition affect the incentives to innovate in different sectors. We allow entrepreneurs to choose the sector for which they innovate (directed technical change). This leads to a counterbalancing induced-technology effect, which always reduces carbon leakage. We therefore conclude that the leakage rates reported in the literature so far may be too high, as these estimates neglect the effect of relative price changes on the incentives to innovate.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 94.2006
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Trade and Environment
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
- Thema
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Climate Policy
Carbon Leakage
Directed Technical Change
International Trade
Klimaschutz
Kohlendioxid
Internationale Umweltpolitik
Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Technischer Fortschritt
Umweltökonomik
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Di Maria, Corrado
van der Werf, Edwin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
- (wo)
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Milano
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Di Maria, Corrado
- van der Werf, Edwin
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Entstanden
- 2006
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