Travail de recherche/Working paper
| Résumé : | We explore the implications of an increase in clean technology spillovers between developedand developing countries. We build a 2-stage 2-country game of abatements in whichplayers are linked with technology spillovers. We show that, within a non-cooperative framework,the response of clean technology investments in developed countries to an increase incross-country technology spillovers is ambiguous. If the marginal benefits of these additionalabatements are not sufficiently high, developed countries have a strategic incentive to decreaseinvestments rather than provide developing countries with further incentives to abate. Sucha strategic response jeopardizes the initial effects of an increase in technology spillovers onclimate change mitigation. |
