The extant literature has paid scant theoretical attention to the tripartite interaction among increasing environmental regulations, the resulting decision by a polluting firm to upgrade its capital stock, and the impact of innovation on this decision. Hence, the authors theoretically analyze this tripartite interaction when a polluting firm faces adjustment costs to upgrade its capital stock. First, they construct a dynamic model of regulation driven investment by a polluting firm. Second, they specify the conditions characterizing efficient investment. Third, they study the impact of an unanticipated increase in innovation on the polluting firm's steady-state capital stock. Fourth, they analyze the impact of an anticipated increase in innovation on the polluting firm's steady-state capital stock. Finally, the authors discuss the relationship between the polluting firm's internal shadow price of capital and the stock market value of a unit of this firm's capital.
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Capital stock, Dynamics, Innovation, Investment, Polluting firm
| Language(s): | English |
| Authors | Batabyal, Amitrajeet (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), Nijkamp, Peter (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Keywords: | Capital stock, Dynamics, Innovation, Investment, Polluting firm |
| Last update: | 2008 |