Measurement of Technological Change The measurement of the rate and direction of technological change: T(Y, I, t)  0, (1) where Y – vector of outputs;

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Measurement of Technological Change The measurement of the rate and direction of technological change: T(Y, I, t)  0, (1) where Y – vector of outputs; I – vector of inputs; t – time. The economy’s production technology: Y =f (K, L, E; t), (2) where Y - a scalar measure of aggregate output, K - single composite of capital goods, L - a single composite of labor inputs, E - a single composite of environmental inputs. Logarithmic differentiation of the production function: Y t =A t + β Lt l t + β Kt k t + β Et e t, (3) where lower case letters represent the percentage growth rates of the corresponding upper case variable; β ’s - the corresponding logarithmic partial derivatives from Equation (2); t indicate that all quantities and parameters may change over time; A t corresponds to “neutral” technological change, in the sense that it represents the rate of growth of output if the growth rates of all inputs were zero. But the possibility that the β ’s can change over time allows for “biased” technological change - changes over time in relative productivity of the various inputs.

There are three stages of economic theories of the process of technological change: Invention constitutes the first development of a scientifically or technically new product or process. Most inventions never actually develop into an innovation, which is accomplished only when the new product or process is commercialized, that is, made available on the market. The invention and innovation stages are carried out primarily in private firms through a process that is broadly characterized as “research and development” (R&D). Finally, a successful innovation gradually comes to be widely available for use in relevant applications through adoption by firms or individuals, a process labeled diffusion. The cumulative economic or environmental impact of new technology results from all three of these stages, which are referred to collectively as the process of technological change. Process of Technological Change

Induced Innovation. Firms undertake an investment activity called “R&D” with the intention of producing profitable new products and processes. Firms’ try to maximize their value, or, equivalently, to maximize the expected discounted present value of cash flows. The output of R&D is modeled as “knowledge capital”- an intangible asset that firms use together with other assets and other inputs to generate revenues. R&D is a profit-motivated investment activity and the rate and direction of innovation are likely to respond to changes in relative prices. The “induced innovation” hypothesis suggests an important pathway for the interaction of environmental policy and technology, and for the introduction of impacts on technological change as a criterion for evaluation of different policy instruments. The Evolutionary Perspective. The idea of bounded rational firms that engage in “satisficing” rather than optimizing behavior is to build an alternative model of the R&D process. In this “evolutionary” model, firms use “rules of thumb” and “routines” to determine how much to invest in R&D, and how to search for new technologies. The empirical predictions of this model depend on the nature of the rules of thumb that firms actually use. For regulation to have important informational effects, the government must have better information than firms have about the nature of environmental problems and their potential solutions. While it seems likely that environmental regulation will stimulate the innovation and diffusion of technologies that facilitate compliance, creation and adoption of new technology will typically require real resources, and have significant opportunity costs. Induced Innovation and Evolutionary Approaches

MICROECONOMICS OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION New Technology Diffusion Potential users time (through information) RANK MODEL( adoption depens on threshold distribution and returns DIFFUSION EPIDEMIC MODEL( speed of technology distribution from adopters to non-adopters) LIMITATION OF DIFFUSION: Market failures- policies focuse on correction of marked failures, without regard to environment benefit Inadequate information-it connects with agency problems Uncertainty –because of newness, it means that users are not sure how it will perform Principal-agent problems – external(ex. landlord/tenant) and internal (individual/department) agency problems Financing access- adoption of new technology may be constrained by inadequate access to financing and even import barriers may inhibit the adoption of technology)

Environmental policies designed to foster technological invention, innovation and diffusion. link between environmental policy and technological change Command-and-control approach marked-based approach (taking shares of the pollution (pollution charges, subsidies, control by firms regardless the cost) tradeable permots, information programs) Marked-based instrument provides incentives for companies to adopt cheaper and better pollution-control technologies.

Technology invention and innovation The main focus in relevant literature is on incentives for firm-level decisions to incur R&D (inventive or innovative) costs in the face of uncertain outcomes; Many attempts have been made to rank the policy instruments according to their influence on invention and innovation; The earliest relevant work by Magat (1979) showed, that all (taxes, subsidies, permits, effluent standards), but technology standards would induce innovation biased towards emission reduction; …….. Magat´s attempt to rank instruments, according to their innovation- stimulating effects, was followed by Fischer (1998), who found that an ambiguous ranking of policy instruments was not possible.

Technology diffusion Technology diffusion or adoption? Theoritcal comparisons among market-based instruments have produced only limited agreement. Here is a ranking list of instruments, receieved throuh analysis: 1) auctioned permits; 2) taxes and subsidies; 3) free permits; 4) perfomance standards. But it appears that unambgious exhaustive ranking is impossible on the bases of theory alone: strength of incentives to adopt an improved technology depends upon empirical values of relevant parameters; Government response – a factor, which influences the magnitude of adoption in a high degree; Technology diffusion presumably lowers the agregate marginal abatement cost function – the level of control changes => the optimal agency response is to set a more ambigious target; According to conclusion by Milliman and Prince (1989) firms would oppose optimal agency adjustment of the policy under all instruments except taxes.

Induced Innovation and Optimal Environmental Policy If the policy intervention induces a reduction in the marginal cost of abatement, then any given policy target will be achieved at a lower cost, than it would without induced innovation. But the lower marginal abatement cost schedule arising from induced innovation makes it socially optimal to achieve a greater level of pollution abatement. It results in greater total expenditure (if we speak about flat marginal social benefit function evaluated at the social optimum) on abatement even as marginal abatement cost falls. It is useful to look not only at optimal overall pollution abatement but also at its timing. Goulder and Mathai have done that in In addition to R&D-induced innovation they considered reductions in abatement costs that come about learning by doing. 1) induced innovation reduces marginal abatement cost, 2) which increases the optimal amount of abatement; 3) it also increases the cost of abatement today relative to the future (because of lower abatement costs in future), 4) another effect in learning-by-doing model is that abatement today lowers the cost of abatement in future (this reinforces the tendency for cumulative optimal abatement to be higher in the presence of induced innovation.