All pages with keywords: EU ETS
Sectors under scrutiny – Evaluation of indicators to assess the risk of carbon leakage in the UK and Germany
One of the central debates surrounding the design of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is the approach to addressing carbon leakage. Correctly identifying the economic activities … read more »
Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without non-regulated companies
This paper examines the investment strategies of compliance companies in irreversible abatement technologies and the environmental achievements of the system in an inter-temporal cap-and-trade market using laboratory experiments. The … read more »
Options for structural measures to improve the European Union Emissions Trading System: response to a European Commission consultation
Main points The impact of ‘back-loading’, a short-term measure, will be limited. ‘Back-loading’ is unlikely to have a significant impact on the price of emissions allowances, unless the ‘back-loaded’ allowances … read more »
Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations
This paper examines the impact of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) on equilibrium emissions, output, price, market concentration, and profits in a generalized Cournot model. We develop formulae for … read more »
Has the EU ETS induced low-carbon innovation?
The EU ETS is the main instrument of European climate policy, and many policymakers envisage it as a driving force of the EU’s transition to a low-carbon economy. By putting … read more »
Assessing the effectiveness of the EU Emissions Trading System
As an increasing number of countries, regions, cities and states implement emission trading policies to limit cap CO2 emission, many turn to the experience of the … read more »
Environmental policy and directed technological change: evidence from the European carbon market
This paper was updated in February 2013 This paper investigates the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)on technological change. We exploit installations-level inclusion … read more »
Integrated EUA and CER price modelling and application for spread option pricing
In this paper, we propose a market consistent futures price dynamics model for cap-and-trade schemes, designed in the spirit of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme … read more »
New rules, new politics, same actors: explaining policy change in the EU ETS
The allocation rules for phase one EU ETS emissions permits demonstrates that energy generators were lobbying winners because they successfully blocked differential treatment (rules) from energy … read more »
Properly designed emissions trading schemes do work!
Emissions trading markets have been touted as the most efficient mechanism to achieve environmental goals at least cost. Whether in the form of voluntary markets or … read more »
