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Permit markets, carbon prices and the creation of innovation clusters
(2018)Economics Working Paper SeriesInnovation clusters combining public and private effort to develop breakthrough technologies promise greater technological advances to slow down climate change. We use a multi-country model with emissions permit trade to examine how international climate policy can incentivize countries to create such clusters. We find that a minimal carbon price is needed to attract applied research firms, but countries may nevertheless fail to invest ...Working Paper