Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105028 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Diskussionspapiere No. V-337-11
Publisher: 
University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, Oldenburg
Abstract: 
We consider an international emissions trading scheme with partial sectoral and regional coverage. Sectoral and regional expansion of the trading scheme is beneficial in aggregate, but not necessarily for individual countries. We simulate international CO2 emission quota markets using marginal abatement cost functions and the Copenhagen 2020 climate policy targets for selected countries that strategically allocate emissions in a bid to manipulate the quota price. Quota exporters and importers generally have conflicting interests about admitting more countries to the trading coalition, and our results indicate that some countries may lose substantially when the coalition expands in terms of new countries. For a given coalition, expanding sectoral coverage makes most countries better off, but some countries (notably the USA and Russia) may lose out due to loss of strategic advantages. In general, exporters tend to have stronger strategic power than importers.
Subjects: 
Emissions Trading
Allocation of Quotas
Strategic Behavior
JEL: 
C61
C72
Q25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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