研討日期	2024年12月23日10:30-12:20
研討地點	國立臺灣大學社會科學院710會議室
主講題目 Title of the paper	The downstream firm’s decision over R&D for energy-saving
作者 Authors of the paper	Chia-Chi Wang , Ying-Da Wang , Jiunn-Rong Chiou
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	Energy Economics Volume 140, December 2024, 107990 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107990
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參加人員	黃鴻、林燕淑、施姵全、許至乙、王光正、高國峯、彭正浩、王羿傑、Bui Dang-Long、Micah Mainala、Anggoro Prihandoko、楊雅棠、洪睿翔
摘要 Abstract of the Paper	Although energy saving for a firm is very important, the R&D literature has rarely discussed this issue. This paper provides a vertically-related model to analyze how conducting energy-saving R&D affects the upstream firm’s pricing decision and downstream firm’s energy-saving and output decisions. We show that an increase in energy price may induce the downstream firm to purchase more energy, but less efficient R&D may not induce the downstream firm to purchase more energy. Moreover, more efficient R&D may not increase the energy price under the upstream monopoly case. Finally, social welfare may not improve when the upstream market becomes more competitive.