dc.contributor.author | Greaker, Mads | |
dc.contributor.author | Rosendahl, Knut Einar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-21T12:34:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-21T12:34:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/180197 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
According to environmental interests groups governments should use their climate policy
strategically in order to provide for a faster introduction of new, cleaner technologies. Strategic use of
climate policy could also induce the development of a successful upstream abatement technology
industry like the Danish windmill industry. Interestingly, this latter question has not been analyzed
theoretically before. Our point of departure is a three-stage game between a government in a small
country with a climate restriction, and a limited number of firms supplying carbon abatement
technology. The government moves first, and may use its climate policy strategically to influence the
behavior of the upstream technology firms. An especially stringent climate policy towards the
polluting downstream sector may then in fact be well founded. It will increase the competition
between the technology suppliers, and lead to lower domestic abatement costs. However, to our
surprise, a strict environmental policy is not a particularly good industrial policy with respect to
developing new successful export sectors. | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway, Research Department | no_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 448 | |
dc.subject | Climate policy | no_NO |
dc.subject | Miljøpolitikk | no_NO |
dc.subject | Karbonreduserende teknologi | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: O32 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: Q2 | no_NO |
dc.subject | JEL classification: Q25 | no_NO |
dc.title | Strategic climate policy in small, open economies | no_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212 | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 33 s. | no_NO |