dc.contributor.author
Ito, Yasushi
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T08:08:13Z
dc.date.available
2010-11-11
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19421
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-23074
dc.description.abstract
Although subsidizing policies are not highly evaluated in environmental
economics since they are contrary to “The Polluter Pays Principle” and there
is a budget constraint, many countries have in practice introduced several
subsidizing policies and some of them have been effective in promoting
investments to a certain degree. This paper explores the conditions under
which subsidizing policies are effective in diffusing new technologies using a
case of a Swedish subsidizing policy, “the local investment program” (LIP)
1998-2002. In the LIP scheme, municipalities make an investment program for
environmental protection in their region and subsidies are granted to
excellent programs after screening by the Swedish government. An investment
program in general consists of several projects by municipal authorities,
municipal companies, private companies and so on. One of the features of the
LIP is that subsidies are granted to each project through municipalities, so
in order for private companies, individuals and other organization to obtain
subsidies their projects have to be included in a program by the municipality.
Most projects would not have been implemented without LIP subsidies, so we
could evaluate the LIP promoted additional investments. But there were not
many projects using new technologies although it was at first one of the
purposes of the LIP. The reasons could be attributed to the fact that the LIP
subsidies were granted through municipalities and to win the race for
subsidies municipalities tended to avoid including projects with high
uncertainty in their program. The competition among municipalities, which had
been considered to promote unique programs, might prevent municipalities from
introducing projects with new technologies in this case.
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dc.relation.ispartofseries
urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000089-6
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title
The effects of subsidies on diffusing new technologies
dc.type
Konferenzveröffentlichung
dc.title.subtitle
a case study of the Swedish subsidizing policy "The Local Investment Program"
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
de
refubium.affiliation.other
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft / Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik (FFU)
refubium.mycore.fudocsId
FUDOCS_document_000000006904
refubium.note.author
A6: Low Carbon Development
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
refubium.series.name
Berlin Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000001297
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access