Emissions trading and profit-neutral grandfathering

This paper examines the amount of grandfathering needed for an emissions trading scheme (ETS) to have a neutral impact on firm profits. We provide a simple formula to calculate profit-neutral grandfathering in a Cournot model with firms of different sizes and a general demand function. Using this fo...

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Glavni autori: Hepburn, C, Quah, J, Ritz, R
Format: Working paper
Izdano: University of Oxford 2006