Market Power, Permit Allocation and Efficiency in Emission Permit Markets

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-349

  Hintermann, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost pass through; Emission permit markets; EU ETS; Market power; Permit allocation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EFFICIENCY; GAS EMISSIONS;

COMPETITIVE MARKETS; ECONOMIC INTERESTS; EMISSION PERMITS; MARGINAL ABATEMENT COSTS; MARKET POWER; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PERMIT ALLOCATION; PRICE MANIPULATION;

COMMERCE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MARKET; EUROPEAN UNION; MARKET SYSTEM; PRICE DYNAMICS; THRESHOLD;

GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79958094954     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-010-9435-9     Document Type: Article

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