Grandfathering and the Endowment Effect An Assessment in the context of the Spanish National Allocation Plan

In this paper, we test the Coase theorem in the context of carbon emissions trading. We investigate whether generating firms were influenced in their operational decisions by the initial amount of grandfathered emissions in the trial period of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ellerman, A. Denny, Reguant, Mar
Format: Working Paper
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45662