Endogenous technical change in environmental macroeconomics

This special issue contains five papers presented at the Workshop on the “Economic Modelling of Environmental Policy and Endogenous Technological Change”, held at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam from 16 to 17 November 2000. The Workshop was organized by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Carlo Carraro), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Ger Klaassen) and the Institute for Environmental Studies of the (Vrije) University of Amsterdam (Reyer Gerlagh and Bob van der Zwaan). It was financially supported by the European Science Foundation and the Industrial Transformation Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme. The aim of the workshop was to understand how environmental policies affect the development of economic and environmental variables, through a shift in the rate of technological change. A wide range of topics was covered, each examining the economic modelling of environmental policy—notably vis-a-vis global warming and energy savings—in a context of endogenous technological change. The workshop counted some 35 participants, from a dozen of European countries, as well as the US, and was organised around the presentation and discussion of 15 contributed papers. A selection of these papers were considered to be of both scientific and policy-relevant interest, while contributing new elements to the academic literature on the environment and technical change. These articles appear in this special issue.

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