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Market power, permit allocation and efficiency in emission permit markets
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 978056
Author(s) Hintermann, Beat
Author(s) at UniBasel Hintermann, Beat
Year 2011
Title Market power, permit allocation and efficiency in emission permit markets
Journal Environmental and resource economics
Volume 49
Number 3
Pages / Article-Number 327-349
Keywords CO(2), Cost pass-through, Emission permit markets, EU ETS, Market power, Permit allocation
Abstract Market power in permit markets has been examined in some detail following the seminal work of Hahn (1984), but the effect of free allocation on price manipulation with market power in both output and permit market has not been addressed.  I show that in this case, the threshold of free allocation above which a dominant firm will increase the permit price is below its optimal emissions in a competitive market, and that by means of permit allocation alone, overall efficiency cannot be achieved.  In addition to being of general economic interest, this issue is relevant in the context of the EUETS.  I find that the largest German, UK and Nordpool power generators received free allowances in excess of the derived threshold.  Conditional on having price-setting power in both the electricity and permit markets, these firms would have found it profitable to manipulate the permit price upwards despite being net permit buyers.
Publisher Springer
ISSN/ISBN 0924-6460
URL https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10640-010-9435-9.pdf
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A5849126
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1007/s10640-010-9435-9
ISI-Number WOS:000291393700002
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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