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Induced technical change and the cost of climate policy

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Sue Wing, Ian.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the potential for a carbon tax to induce R&D, and for the consequent induced technical change (ITC) to lower the macroeconomic cost of abating carbon emissions. ITC is modelled within a general equilibrium simulation of the U.S. economy by the effects of emissions restrictions on the level and composition of aggregate R&D, the accumulation of the stock of knowledge, and the industry-level reallocation and substitution of intangible services derived therefrom. Contrary to other authors, I find that ITC's impact is large, positive and dominated by the latter "substitution effect," which mitigates most of the deadweight loss of the tax.
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Abstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/).
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2003-09
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http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a102
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3648
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no. 102
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;Report no. 102
Keywords
induced technical change, climate-change policy, computable general equilibrium models

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