On reducing the windfall profits in environmental subsidy programs

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Year: 2009
Volume: 58
Issue: 2
Pages: 192-205

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Investment subsidies are widely used to induce adoption of new technologies that can lower the (marginal) cost of reducing emissions. To economize on these subsidies, governments would like to distinguish between firms that need to receive a subsidy to adopt a new technology, and firms that would adopt that technology even without subsidies. We show that policies consisting of a menu of emission taxes and investment subsidies can potentially induce firms to self-select.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jeeman:v:58:y:2009:i:2:p:192-205
Journal Field
Environment
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-24