Carbon trading thickness and market efficiency

Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1331-1336

  Montagnoli, Alberto ^a   de Vries, Frans P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon trading; Efficient market hypothesis; EU ETS; Thin trading; Variance ratio tests

Indexed keywords

CARBON TRADING; EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS; EU ETS; THIN TRADING; VARIANCE RATIO TEST;

EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; INTERNATIONAL LAW; TESTING;

COMMERCE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION;

EUROPE;

EID: 78149414201     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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