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dc.contributor.authorSue Wing, Ian.
dc.date.accessioned2003-10-27T16:07:15Z
dc.date.available2003-10-27T16:07:15Z
dc.date.issued2003-09
dc.identifier.otherno. 102
dc.identifier.urihttp://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a102
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3648
dc.descriptionAbstract 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/).en
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the Offce of Science (BER), U.S. Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-FG02-02ER63484, and by funding from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is supported by a consortium of government, industry and foundation sponsors.en
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dc.relation.ispartofseries;Report no. 102
dc.subjectinduced technical changeen
dc.subjectclimate-change policyen
dc.subjectcomputable general equilibrium modelsen
dc.titleInduced technical change and the cost of climate policyen


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