DP20040 Strategic Commitments to Decarbonize: The Role of Large Firms, Common Ownership, and Governments

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We study howgovernment policies and corporate commitments to decarbonize interact under two externalities: environmental damages and green innovation spillovers. Unconstrained carbon taxes and innovation subsidies could achieve rst-best outcomes, but when government policies face constraints, commitments by large rms and institutional investors can serve as prot-driven coordination devices that spur green innovation and technology adoption, and thereby reduce overall transition costs. Firm