Climate policy and innovation: A quantitative macroeconomic analysis

S Fried - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018 - aeaweb.org
A carbon tax can induce innovation in green technologies. I evaluate the quantitative impact
of this channel in a dynamic, general equilibrium model with endogenous innovation in …

Carbon lock‐in: the role of expectations

G Van der Meijden, S Smulders - International Economic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We argue that expectations about future energy use affect the transition from fossil to
renewables because of an interaction between innovation and resource scarcity. This article …

Innovation-led transitions in energy supply

D Lemoine - 2017 - nber.org
ABSTRACT I generalize a benchmark model of directed technical change in order to
reconcile it with the historical experience of energy transitions. I show that the economy …

A Quantitative Analysis of the Optimal Energy Policy from the Perspective of China's Supply-Side Reform

J Xi, H Wu, B Li, J Liu - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
How does the capacity removal policy affect China's economy? To quantify the policy
outcomes and costs, a four-sector model with vertical market structures is built. The …

CARBON LOCK-IN: THE ROLE OF EXPECTATIONS.

G Meijden, S Smulders - International Economic Review, 2017 - search.ebscohost.com
We argue that expectations about future energy use affect the transition from fossil to
renewables because of an interaction between innovation and resource scarcity. This article …

Essays On Climate Change and the Macroeconomy

SD Fried - 2015 - escholarship.org
This dissertation applies quantitative macroeconomic tools to study climate and energy
policy in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. The first chapter examines how the cost …

[PDF][PDF] The role of technology in saving the climate: Boundless or rebound?

R Harta - 2013 - Citeseer
How to break the global trend of rising CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel consumption? We
build a general equilibrium model of long-run economic development, and test the power of …

Energy conservation, technological change and economic growth

R Hart - iaee.org
Methods We develop a general equilibrium model in which growth comes from endogenous
technological change. Production factors (energy and labour) are complements and enter …