Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
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Abstract
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g., electric, hybrid, and hydrogen) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that firms tend to innovate more in clean (and less in dirty) technologies when they face higher tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation (clean/dirty) both from aggregate spillovers and from the firm’s own innovation history. We simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow clean technologies to overtake dirty technologies.
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- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Topic
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Canadian institutions
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research CouncilGrantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
- Keywords
- Clean technologyPath dependencyTechnical changeAuto industryCarbon taxIndustrial organizationPanel dataClimate changePath (computing)Face (sociological concept)EconomicsConstruct (python library)Technological changeBusinessNatural resource economicsEconomic systemComputer scienceEconometricsEngineeringMacroeconomics
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