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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2016

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profitability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). On the basis of...

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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants : the case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme

Heindl, Peter - 2011

emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can … trading scheme and show that "adjoining" markets to quantity regulation, supplying goods (i.e. abatement technology) or … the design of environmental regulation, when considering transaction costs. -- Quantity Regulation ; Transaction Costs …

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Designing emissions trading in practice general considerations and experiences from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)

Heindl, Peter; Löschel, Andreas - 2012

This paper deals with designing emissions trading in practice. After a short introduction to the general idea of emissions trading, practical requirements for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme are considered, including the temporal and spatial dimension as well as administrative...

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The European Union emissions trading scheme and fuel efficiency of fossil fuel power plants in Germany

Germeshausen, Robert - 2018 - Version: 10 January 2018

I investigate the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on fuel efficiency of fossil fuel power plants using administrative micro data on power plants in Germany from 2003 to 2012. I find positive efficiency effects in fuel use, leading to a decrease in fuel input of 0.4...

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Renewable energy targets in the context of the EU ETS : whom do they benefit exactly?

Landis, Florian; Heindl, Peter - 2016

We study how European climate and energy policy targets affect different member states and households of different income quintiles within the member states. We find that renewable energy targets in power generation, by reducing EU ETS permit prices, may make net permit exporters worse off and...

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The impacts of the EU ETS on efficiency : an empirical analyses for German manufacturing firms

Löschel, Andreas; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes; Managi, Shunsuke - 2016

We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and nearest neighbor matching. As a measure of economic...

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A practical approach to offset permits in post Kyoto climate policy

Heindl, Peter; Voigt, Sebastian - 2011

Development Mechanism (CDM) will potentially play an important role for cost containment in domestic greenhouse gas regulation … USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand install domestic greenhouse gas regulation schemes to achieve the emissions …

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The effect of regulatory scrutiny asymmetric cost pass-through in power wholesale and its end

Mokinski, Frieder; Wölfing, Nikolas - 2013

We find an asymmetric pass-through of European Emission Allowance (EUA) prices to wholesale electricity prices in Germany and show that this asymmetry has disappeared in response to a report on investigations by the competition authority. The asymmetric pricing pattern, however, was not detected...

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Strategic delegation and international permit markets : why linking may fail

Habla, Wolfgang; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This version: May 2017

We analyse a principal-agent relationship in the context of international climate policy. Principals in two countries first decide whether to merge domestic emission permit markets to an international market, then delegate the domestic permit supply to an agent. We find that principals select...

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Financial intermediaries and emissions trading market development and pricing strategies

Heindl, Peter - 2012

This paper examines the role of intermediaries in quantity regulation theoretically and presents a data application to …

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