【主讲】Soo Keong Yong (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
【主题】Emission Taxes, Clean Technology Cooperation, and Tacit Collusion: Experimental Evidence
【时间】2015年4月10日 (周五) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼602室
【语言】英文
【摘要】We use a laboratory experiment to study the link between cooperative research and development (R&D) in clean technology and collusion in a downstream product market in the presence of a time-consistent emissions tax. Such a tax creates additional interconnections between firms, in addition to the standard technological spillovers. We consider both symmetric and asymmetric technological spillovers. Our results show a strong link between R&D cooperation and subsequent product market collusion in the case of symmetric spillovers even to the extent of reducing overall social welfare. On the other hand, when spillovers are asymmetric, successful R&D cooperation does not necessarily result in collusion.
