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Technology, energy and the environment.

Mitchell, Glenn Terry.

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Technology, energy and the environment.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Technology, energy and the environment./
Author:	Mitchell, Glenn Terry.
Description:	138 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Charles Kolstad.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-07A.
Subject:	Agriculture, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3020295
ISBN:	0493317074

Technology, energy and the environment.
Mitchell, Glenn Terry.

Technology, energy and the environment. - 138 p.

Chairperson: Charles Kolstad.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.

This dissertation consists of three distinct papers concerned with technology, energy and the environment.

ISBN: 0493317074Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017510
Agriculture, General.

Technology, energy and the environment.
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520 $a This dissertation consists of three distinct papers concerned with technology, energy and the environment.
520 $a The first paper is an empirical analysis of production under uncertainty, using agricultural production data from the central United States. Unlike previous work, this analysis identifies the effect of actual realizations of weather as well as farmers' expectations about weather. The results indicate that both of these are significant factors explaining short run profits in agriculture. Expectations about weather, called climate, affect production choices, and actual weather affects realized output. These results provide better understanding of the effect of climate change in agriculture.
520 $a The second paper examines how emissions taxes induce innovation that reduces pollution. A polluting firm chooses technical improvement to minimize cost over an infinite horizon, given an emission tax set by a planner. This leads to a solution path for technical change. Changes in the tax rate affect the path for innovation. Setting the tax at equal to the marginal damage (which is optimal in a static setting with no technical change) is not optimal in the presence of technical change. When abatement is also available as an alternative to technical change, changes in the tax can have mixed effects, due to substitution effects.
520 $a The third paper extends the theoretical framework for exploring the diffusion of new technologies. Information about new technologies spreads through the economy by means of a network. The pattern of diffusion will depend on the structure of this network. Observed networks are the result of an evolutionary process. This paper identifies how these evolutionary outcomes compare with optimal solutions. The conditions guaranteeing convergence to an optimal outcome are quite stringent. It is useful to determine the set of initial population states that do converge to an optimal outcome. The distribution of costs and benefits among the agents within an information processing structure plays a critical role in defining this set. These distributional arrangements represent alternative institutional regimes. Institutional changes can improve outcomes, free the flow of information, and encourage the diffusion of profitable new technologies.
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