报告题目 | Promoting Clean Technology Products: To Subsidize Consumers or Manufacturer? | ||
报告人（单位） | 马光锐（香港科技大学工业工程与物流管理学系） | ||
点评人（单位） | 舒嘉,刘新旺，侯合银，王文平 | 点评人（单位） | |
时间地点 | 时间：2014年12月12日（周五）下午2点 地点：九龙湖经管楼B-201 | ||
报告内容摘要 | | ||
报告内容：We study the dynamic adoption process of Clean Technology Products (e.g., electric vehicles and solar photovoltaic panels), which is often hampered by the chicken-and-egg dilemma: at the early stage of commercialization, firms are reluctant to invest in support infrastructure before sufficient consumers adopt the products; on the other hand, consumers hesitate to adopt the products without such infrastructure. We study two lines of widely-discussed policy instruments, government subsidies and mandated information disclosure, to tackle this dilemma. Whereas our analysis confirms that these instruments are conducive to adoption in certain parameter ranges, it also reveals two interesting results. First, both subsidizing consumers and subsidizing the firm may negatively affect adoptions, in that the former may interfere with firm’s investment incentives and lead to reduced overall adoption levels, and the latter may cause early adopters to delay their purchase. Second, information asymmetry about firms’ infrastructure investment cost may possibly induce greater early and overall adoptions and therefore mandated information disclosure can lead to decreased overall adoptions under certain conditions. We obtain guidelines for choosing the proper subsidy subjects (firm or consumers) and information intervention policy to successfully promote the CTP adoption. 报告人简介： 马光锐，香港科技大学工业工程与物流管理学博士，西安交通大学管理科学学士，现为香港科技大学博士后研究员。马光锐的研究方向为可持续性运营管理，供应链与物流管理，清洁能源技术推广及相关政府政策设计。 | |||
