produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … innovation to improve the performance of these technologies. We employ an IAM (WITCH) which has a fairly rich description of the …

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over … second regime, market-based policies are moderately effective in promoting renewable innovation, while command …-and-control policies depress fossil based innovation. Finally, market-based policies are more effective to consolidate a green comparative …

technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …. -- Innovation ; Technological Change ; Patents ; Energy-Efficiency ; Buildings ; Environmental Policy …

environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms' strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms …-free technologies. -- Emissions Trading ; Technological Innovation ; Random Matching ; Evolutionary Game ; Penalty System ; Strategic …