The existence of some 2 billion unused EU Allowances (EUAs) at the end of Phase II of the EU's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has sparked considerable debate about structural shortcomings of the EU ETS. At the same time, there has been a surprising lack of interest in one possible explanation of this accumulation of EUAs: the theory of intertemporal permit trading, i.e. allowance banking. In this ...
Florenz:
EUI,
2015,
23 S.
(EUI Working Papers: RSCAS ; 2015/29)
| Denny Ellerman, Vanessa Valero, Aleksandar Zaklan
The creation of the EU's Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has turned the right to emit CO2 into a positively priced intermediate good for the affected firms. Firms thus face the decision whether to source compliance with the EU ETS within their boundaries or to acquire it through the permit trade. However, a combination of internal abatement, free permit allocation and flexibility to shift the use ...
Florenz:
EUI,
2013,
23 S.
(EUI Working Papers: RSCAS ; 2013/19)
| Aleksandar Zaklan
The GAMS codes and all data for the binary-equilibrium model presented in Chapter 4 and the Appendix of DIW Discussion Paper 1475 are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and are available for download at github. The repository also includes an application of this method to a natural gas market investment and production game to illustrate how the binary equilibrium ...