Climate change policies and endogenous technical change in a general equilibrium modelling framework : trade spillovers, knowledge stocks and rebound effects

dc.contributor.advisor	Carraro, Carlo	it_IT
dc.contributor.author	Parrado Moscoso, Ramiro Fernando <1971>	it_IT
dc.date.accessioned	2012-04-21T09:52:04Z	it_IT
dc.date.accessioned	2012-07-30T16:05:18Z
dc.date.available	2012-04-21T09:52:04Z	it_IT
dc.date.available	2012-07-30T16:05:18Z
dc.date.issued	2012-03-30	it_IT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1169	it_IT
dc.description.abstract	This work is structured into three chapters, each one exploring the effectiveness of climate policies considering the formulation of endogenous technical change (ETC) from different perspectives. Including ETC in a computable general equilibrium model allows combining important feedback mechanisms that may affect the final outcome of a climate policy. The first chapter considers ETC specifically as biased-technical change in the form of trade-embodied international technology spillovers, restricted to imports of machinery and equipment. The second chapter improves the representation of ETC by building sector-specific stocks of knowledge, which accumulate thanks to investments in R&D. The third chapter focuses on the rebound effect by means of the improved ETC model described in the previous chapter.	it_IT
dc.description.abstract	Diviso in tre capitoli, questo lavoro esplora l’effettività delle politiche climatiche in relazione al tema del progresso tecnico endogeno (ETC), sotto varie prospettive. L’inclusione dell’ETC in un modello di equilibrio economico generale consente la combinazione di importanti meccanismi di feedback in grado di incidere sul risultato finale di una politica climatica. Il primo capitolo elabora il progresso tecnico nella forma di spillovers tecnologici derivanti dal commercio internazionale di macchinari e di capitale. Il secondo capitolo presenta una più completa rappresentazione dell’ETC introducendo nel modello degli stock di conoscenza specifici per ogni settore, accumulabili tramite investimenti in ricerca e sviluppo. Il terzo capitolo, partendo dal modello ETC sviluppato nel capitolo precedente, si concentra sui cosiddetti effetti di rebound.	it_IT
dc.format.medium	Tesi cartacea	it_IT
dc.language.iso	en	it_IT
dc.publisher	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia	it_IT
dc.rights	© Ramiro Fernando Parrado Moscoso, 2012	it_IT
dc.subject	Climate policy	it_IT
dc.subject	Endogenous technical change	it_IT
dc.subject	Rebound effect	it_IT
dc.subject	General equilibrium model	it_IT
dc.title	Climate change policies and endogenous technical change in a general equilibrium modelling framework : trade spillovers, knowledge stocks and rebound effects	it_IT
dc.type	Doctoral Thesis	it_IT
dc.degree.name	Scienza e gestione dei cambiamenti climatici	it_IT
dc.degree.level	Dottorato di ricerca	it_IT
dc.degree.grantor	Scuola dottorale interateneo Global change science and policy	it_IT
dc.description.academicyear	2009/2010	it_IT
dc.description.cycle	23	it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator	Barbante, Carlo	it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark	D001099	it_IT
dc.location	Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato	it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess	it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno	955464	it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber	127 p.	it_IT
dc.subject.miur	SECS-P/06 ECONOMIA APPLICATA	it_IT
dc.description.note	Doctor Europaeus	it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent	INTRODUCTION -MOTIVATION -RESEARCH OBJECTIVE AND STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS CHAPTER 1: TECHNOLOGY SPILLOVERS EMBODIED IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: INTERTEMPORAL, REGIONAL AND SECTORAL EFFECTS IN A GLOBAL CGE FRAMEWORK 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 SPILLOVERS EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND AND THE CGE LITERATURE 1.3 MODELLING INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY SPILLOVERS 1.3.1 The CGE model framework 1.3.2 Calibration of spillovers parameters 1.3.3 Assessing the propensity to benefit from spillovers 1.4 SPILLOVER STAND-ALONE EFFECTS IN THE BASELINE SCENARIO 1.5 ENVIRONMENTAL, TECHNOLOGY, AND TRADE SYNERGIES IN CLIMATE POLICY 1.5.1 Climate policy 1.5.2 Climate policy and BTAs 1.5.3 Climate policy and trade liberalisation 1.5.4 Sensitivity analysis 1.6 CONCLUSIONS 2 CHAPTER 2: ENDOGENOUS TECHNICAL CHANGE AND CLIMATE POLICY: EFFECTS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND A STOCK OF KNOWLEDGE IN A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM FRAMEWORK 2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 ENDOGENOUS TECHNICAL CHANGE IN A MODELLING FRAMEWORK 2.3 INTRODUCING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND A STOCK OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE GTAP DATABASE 2.3.1 Initial considerations and data sources 2.3.2 Constructing satellite R&D expenditures data for the GTAP database 2.3.3 Including the stock of knowledge 2.4 MODELLING R&D AND THE STOCK OF KNOWLEDGE 2.5 SIMULATION RESULTS 2.5.1 Evaluating the effects of introducing ETC in CGE modelling 2.5.2 The contribution of endogenous technical change in climate policy evaluation: A simple experiment 2.5.3 Sensitivity analysis 2.6 CONCLUSIONS 3 CHAPTER 3: THE ECONOMY-WIDE REBOUND EFFECT AND CLIMATE POLICY EFFECTIVENESS IN A MULTIREGIONAL GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM FRAMEWORK 3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 REBOUND EFFECT DEFINITIONS 3.2.1 Basic rebound definition 3.2.2 A distinction between energy and energy services 3.2.3 Direct rebound definitions 3.2.4 Rebound definitions in the general equilibrium framework 3.3 THE REBOUND EFFECT IN THE LITERATURE 3.4 CGE MODELLING FRAMEWORK 3.4.1 The ICES model 3.4.2 Sensitivity analysis 3.5 REBOUND EFFECT INSIGHTS FROM GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM 3.5.1 General equilibrium own price elasticity of demand 3.5.2 Energy efficiency improvements 3.5.3 Rebound effects and climate policy 3.6 CONCLUSIONS 4 CONCLUSION AND FURTHER RESEARCH ANNEX A: DESCRIPTION OF THE ICES MODEL	it_IT