The role of technological optimism in international climate agreements
| dc.contributor | Graduate Program in Economics. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mumcu, Ayşe. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Adaman, Fikret. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kösemen, Emre. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-16T12:00:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-16T12:00:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research aims to explore the role of technological optimism in international climate agreements and how technological optimism affects the climate-related behaviors of countries. To this end, I built upon the dynamic game with stocks proposed by Harstad (2012, 2016), which takes emissions and green technology investments as contractible strategies. An R&D project that aims to invent a technology that will decrease the accumulation of greenhouse gases is introduced into the model. A comparison between my model, where the R&D dimension is exclusively considered, and the baseline model proposed by Harstad will capture how technological optimism may alter the behavior of countries. With the presence of an R&D project, emission levels and the greenhouse gas stock increase, and the global stock of green technology and its investments decrease for all countries in both the first-best (cooperative) and the business-as-usual (non-cooperative) outcomes. The effect of technological optimism increases when the R&D project is expected to invent a more robust technology to decrease greenhouse gas accumulation. My model explores how relying on a future technology affects the current action plan to tackle climate change, thus contributing to the literature on international climate agreements, dynamic games and technological optimism. | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 cm. | |
| dc.format.pages | viii, 80 leaves ; | |
| dc.identifier.other | EC 2022 K67 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://digitalarchive.library.bogazici.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16368 | |
| dc.publisher | Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Green technology. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Technological innovations. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Climate change. | |
| dc.title | The role of technological optimism in international climate agreements |
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