Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53423 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 118.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Price floors in greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes can have advantages for technological innovation, price volatility, and management of cost uncertainty, but implementation has potential pitfalls. We argue that the best mechanism for implementing a price floor is to have firms pay an extra fee or tax. This has budgetary advantages and is more compatible with international permit trading than alternative approaches that dominate the academic and policy debate. The fee approach can also be used to implement more general hybrid approaches to emissions pricing.
Subjects: 
Price Floor
Price Ceiling
Carbon Tax
Emissions Trading
Carbon Pricing
Price and Quantity Controls
Waxman-Markey Bill
JEL: 
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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