NDLI: Transboundary Pollution and Absorptive Capacity

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Author	Ben Youssef, Slim
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The impact of the investment in absorptive capacity on transboundary pollution is studied by considering two countries, each of them regulating a firm. Firms can invest in inventive research and in absorptive research to lower their pollution intensity. The absorptive research enables a firm to capture part of the inventive research made by the other one. We show that by means of adequate emission taxes, original and absorptive research and development (R&D) subsidies, regulators can reach the non-cooperative social optimum. Interestingly, we show that the investment in absorptive research enables non-cooperating regulators to better internalize transboundary pollution. The higher is the learning parameter of absorption, the greater is the proportion of transboundary pollution internalized. Therefore, it is recommended for the international community to make the patent laws more flexible and enabling learning from the research made by others more interesting. Moreover, the investment in absorptive R&D may lead to multiple equilibria necessitating non-cooperating countries to coordinate on an equilibrium, which constitutes an incentive for them to cooperate.
Starting Page	205
Ending Page	211
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14202026
Journal	Environmental Modeling & Assessment
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15732967
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-09-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Transboundary pollution Inventive R&D Absorptive R&D Internalization Coordination Applications of Mathematics Math. Application in Environmental Science Environment Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Environmental Science

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