研討日期

201664日上午12:00 ~ 13:10

研討地點

台大社會科學院710討論室

主講題目

Regulatory attitudes and environmental innovation in a model combining internal and external R&D

作者

Anthony Heyes and Sandeep Kapur

文獻出處

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 61 (2011) 327–340

主講人

呂得成

參加人員

彭正浩、呂得成、曹古駒、林燕淑、施全、張博涵、林晏如、陳金盛、高國峯、張瑞雲、王羿傑

摘要

The extent to which environmental regulatory institutions are either ‘green’ or ‘brown’ impacts not just the intensity of regulation at any moment, but also the incentives for the development of new pollution-control technologies. We set up a strategic model of R&D in which a polluter can deploy technologies developed in-house, or license technologies developed by specialist outsiders (an ‘eco-industry’). Polluters exert R&D effort and may even develop redundant technologies to improve the terms on which they procure technology from outside. We find that, while regulatory bias has an ambiguous impact on the best-available technology, strategic delegation to systematically biased regulators can improve social welfare