Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4099 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1387
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The European emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) for CO2 is the largest existing emissions trading scheme in the world. The main reason for the implementation of this scheme is to reach the European Kyoto targets at minimal cost and to establish a price for emissions. The right to emit CO2 therefore becomes a scarce production input. In this paper we want to analyze the determinants of the price for allowances in the EU-ETS and study whether it reacts to fundamental influence factors such as energy prices. The results show, that as long as the market viewed the allowances as a scarce input factor, the price reacts to changes in energy prices and weather variations.
Subjects: 
Allowance prices
Energy prices
Weather variation
European Emissions Trading Scheme
JEL: 
C22
Q56
Q58
Q54
Data set: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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