Refunded Emission Payments and Diffusion of no Abatement Technologies in Sweden

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• Ecological Economics

Resumen

• This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under the Swedish system of refunded emission payments (REP) and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy, under which the charge revenues are refunded back to the regulated firms in proportion to energy output, was explicitly designed to affect investment in NOx-reducing technologies. The main finding is that REP had a significant effect on the adoption of post-combustion technologies. Moreover, we also find some indications that the effects of REP have been enhanced by the existing system of individual emission standards. In particular, the effect of REP speeding up the pace of adoption of post-combustion technologies is considerably larger in those counties where stringent standards are in place. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.

autores

• Bonilla Londoño, Jorge Alexander
• Coria, Jessica
• Mohlin, Kristina
• Sterner, Thomas

fecha de publicación

• 2015

Área temática

• H23 - Externalidades; Efectos redistributivos; Impuestos y subvenciones medioambientales
• O33 - Cambio tecnológico: opciones y consecuencias; Difusión
• O38 - Innovación; investigación y desarrollo (I+D); cambio tecnológico; derechos de propiedad intelectual: Política pública
• Q52 - Costes del control de la contaminación; Efectos distributivos; Efectos en el empleo

Enfoque geográfico

• Europe  Continent
• Sweden  Country

Líneas de investigación

• Environmental Regulations
• No Abatement Technologies
• Refunded Emission Payments
• Technology Diffusion

Identificador de objeto digital (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.030

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