Institutional Design of International Technology Agreements for Preventing Global Warming

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06466
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: KAJITA Chisa 九州大学, 経済学研究院, 専門研究員 (90756503)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 国際環境協定 / 環境政策 / 環境R&D / 応用ゲーム理論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Further development of environmental technologies is considered important for climate change mitigation. However, these technologies tend to require high costs in the phase of research and development (R&D). Moreover, one country’s knowledge acquired through R&D spills over into others, which causes a free-rider problem. From the above reasons, each country may not conduct sufficient level of R&D individually and voluntarily. In order to solve this problem, the mechanism, which promotes multilateral technology collaboration in the R&D phase, is considered necessary: hereafter, we call it an international technology agreement. In this research, I revealed some conditions under which an international technology agreement will function effectively.

Free Research Field

環境経済学