Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the validity of the cost of carry model by examining the time series properties of the deviation between future and spot prices in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) over the time period 2005-2012. The paper utilizes a...

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), the major policy tool of the EU for achieving its Kyoto target, is the largest pollution permit market in the world. Following the lessons learned from the trial phase (2005-2007), new measures were adopted for the Kyoto commitment period (2008-2012) in...

This paper provides a review of pertinent trading, regulatory and policy issues in the EU-ETS since 2005. We review the first two phases of the scheme and speculate on auctioning related issues in the third phase. Our report documents a number of variables contributing to inefficiencies in Phase...

This paper is the first empirical study to focus on the role of liquidity for futures in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). In this large and fast growing market with a global market value of $50 billion, liquidity is fundamental because it enables entities to trade quickly...

We examine the world's largest carbon exchange, ICE's ECX, by applying Chordia et al.'s (2008) conception of short-horizon return predictability as an inverse indicator of market efficiency. We find a strong relationship between liquidity and market efficiency such that when spreads narrow,...

Using high-frequency data from the European Climate Exchange (ECX), we examine the determinants of price impact of €21 billion-worth of block trades during 2008-2011 in the European carbon market. We find that wider bid-ask spreads and volatility are characterised by smaller price impact....