Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30552 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2809
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Strategic market behavior by permit sellers will harm the European Union as the EU as a whole is expected to become a large net buyer of permits in a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. In this paper we explore how the EU could benefit from making permit trade agreements with non-EU countries. These trade agreements involve a minimum permit sales requirement complemented by a financial transfer from the EU to the other contract party. Such agreements enable the EU to act strategically in the permit market on behalf of its member states, although each member state is assumed to behave as a price taker in the permit market. Using a stylized numerical simulation model we show that an appropriately designed permit trade agreement between the EU and China can cut EU's total compliance cost significantly. This result is robust for a wide range of parameterizations of the simulation model.
Subjects: 
emissions permit
post-Kyoto climate agreement
strategic permit trade
JEL: 
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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