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Breakthrough Renewables and the Green Paradox

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Author: Van der Ploeg, Frederick

Source: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Volume 74, Number 1, March 2018, pp. 52-70(19)

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1628/001522118X15101422148687

We show how a fossil fuel monopoly responds to a carbon-free substitute becoming available at some uncertain point in the future if demand is isoelastic and variable extraction costs are zero but upfront exploration investment costs have to be made. Before the breakthrough, oil reserves are depleted too rapidly; afterwards, the oil depletion rate drops and the oil price jumps up by discrete amounts. Subsidizing green R&D to speed up the breakthrough speeds up oil extraction before the breakthrough, but more oil is left in situ as exploration investment is lower. The latter can offset the Green Paradox effect.
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Keywords: GREEN PARADOX; GREEN R&D; REGIME SHIFT

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 March 2018

This article was made available online on 15 January 2018 as a Fast Track article with title: "Breakthrough Renewables and the Green Paradox".

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