Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37424 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Regulating Related Industries No. E9-V3
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We analyse the efficiency effects of the initial permit allocation given to firms with market power in both permit and output market. We examine two models: a long-run model with endogenous technology and capacity choice, and a short-run model with fixed technology and capacity. In the long run, quantity pre-commitment with Bertrand competition can yield Cournot outcomes also under emissions trading. In the short run, Bertrand output competition reproduces the effects derived under Cournot competition, but displays higher pass-through profits. In a second-best setting of overallocation, a tighter emissions target tends to improve permit-market efficiency in the short run.
Subjects: 
emissions trading
initial permit allocation
Bertrand competition
EU ETS
endogenous technology choice
Kreps and Scheinkman
JEL: 
L13
Q28
D43
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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