This paper presents an introductory analysis of price formation and volatility in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme using highfrequency data. The results show that there are several anomalies both in the EUA spot and EUA futures market. First, price formation seems to take place on...

Über Familienunternehmen wird in der Öffentlichkeit regelmäßig diskutiert. Oft wird dabei hervorgehoben, dass Familienunternehmen eine wichtige Stellung einnehmen. Ein Verweis auf konkrete Zahlen, die eine wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Familienunternehmen offenlegen,...

Der Einfluss der Realwirtschaft auf den Preis für europäische CO2-Zertifikate stößt seit geraumer Zeit in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft auf reges Interesse. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des ZEW zeigen nun, dass der CO2-Zertifikatepreis nicht sehr eng mit der europäischen...

This work provides a descriptive overview of Russian markets for financial derivatives. Available figures for the exchange-traded and over-the-counter-traded derivatives in Russia show that the Russian derivatives markets experienced enormous growth rates since the financial crisis in 1998....

This work provides a descriptive overview of Russian markets for financialderivatives. Available figures for the exchange-traded and over-the-counter-tradedderivatives in Russia show that the Russian derivatives markets experiencedenormous growth rates since the financial crisis in 1998....

In this paper we model the adjustment process of European Union Allowance(EUA) prices to the releases of announcements at high-frequency controlling forintraday periodicity, volatility clustering and volatility persistence. We ¯nd thatthe high-frequency EUA price dynamics are very well captured...

In this paper we examine the nonlinear relation between the EUA price and its fundamentals, such as energy prices, macroeconomic risk factors and weather conditions. By estimating a Markov regime-switching model, we find that the relation between the EUA price and its fundamentals varies over...