Policy Uncertainty and Technology Adoption
Author | : Mohammad Hossein Dehghani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1376397721 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Download or read book Policy Uncertainty and Technology Adoption written by Mohammad Hossein Dehghani and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper considers technology adoption under both technological and subsidy uncertainties. Uncertainty in subsidies for green technologies is considered as an example. Technological progress is exogenous and modeled as a jump process with a drift. The analytical solution is presented for cases when there is no subsidy uncertainty and when the subsidy changes once. The case when the subsidy follows a time-invariant Markov process is analyzed numerically. The results show that improving the innovation process raises the investment thresholds. When technological jumps are small or rare, this improvement reduces the expected time before technology adoption. However, when technological jumps are large or abundant, this improvement may raise this expected time.