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Global Climate Change, Technology Transfer And Trade With Complete Specialization, Dirk T.G. Rübbelke, Vivekananda Mukherjee Sep 2006

Global Climate Change, Technology Transfer And Trade With Complete Specialization, Dirk T.G. Rübbelke, Vivekananda Mukherjee

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

The paper develops a model in which a country with better technology for abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emission (the North) commits to an international protocol to keep the global GHG emission within a specified limit while it helps the mitigation effort in the other country (the South) with unconditional transfer of abatement technology. It finds out in the autarkic (‘no trade’) equilibrium the technology transfer offer from the North is always accepted by the South. The North may offer either a partial or a complete technology transfer. If partial technology transfer is offered it finds out the determinants …