Hepburn, Cameron; Quah, John K.-H.; LinkRitz, Robert A. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2006
This paper examines the amount of grandfathering needed for an emissionstrading scheme (ETS) to have a neutral impact on firm profits. Weprovide a simple formula to calculate profit-neutral grandfathering in aCournot model with firms of different sizes and a general demand function.Using this...