Green Technology Adoption, Complexity, and the Role of Public Policy: A Simple Theoretical Model
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Keywords
technology choice; climate change; complexity; lock-in effects; increasing returns; green subsidies; public policy; Pigouvian taxes; stochastic dynamics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2023-05-08 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2023-05-08 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2023-05-08 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-INO-2023-05-08 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2023-05-08 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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