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| Title: | | Dominant agent and intertemporal emissions trading  |
| Authors: | | Hagem, Cathrine Westskog, Hege |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo 2005,04 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we analyze how restricting intertemporal trading by prohibiting borrowing of emission permits affects the ability of a dominant agent to exploit its market power, and the consequences this has for the cost-effectiveness of implementing an emissions target. We show that the monopolist could take advantage of the constraint on borrowing by distributing the sale of permits ineffectively across periods, and moreover that this inefficiency is influenced by the way permits are initially allocated between agents. A cost-effective distribution of abatement across periods can be achieved by an appropriate distribution of the total endowments of permits over time for each agent. |
| Subjects: | | pollution permits intertemporal trading market power borrowing constraint |
| JEL: | | D92 H74 Q52 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
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