Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192520 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 538
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is breaking new ground in the experience with emission trading regimes across multiple jurisdictions. Since the EU ETS covers only some industries, it implies a hybrid emission control scheme where EU member states must apply complementary domestic emissions regulation for the non-trading sectors of their economies in order to comply with their national emission reduction targets. The EU ETS thus opens up for strategic partitioning of national emissions budgets by the member states between trading and non-trading sectors. In this paper we examine the potential effects of such strategic behavior on compliance cost and emissions prices. We show that concerns on efficiency losses from strategic partitioning are misplaced if all the member states behave in a Nash-Cournot manner. However, if a single country takes the official partitioning of the other countries as a reference point, there is substantial scope for exploiting market power.
Subjects: 
Emissions Trading
Allocation of Quotas
Strategic Behavior
JEL: 
C61
C72
Q25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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