amounts of "abundant" emission rights. Concerns on hot air motivated proposals for caps on emissions trading by the EU. These …

This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A … emissions regulation. An empirical analysis of the first trading phase of the EU ETS corroborates our theoretical prediction for … lobbying power stand-alone or threats of potential worker layoffs did not exert a significant influence on the EU ETS …

Since January 1st the European Union has launched an EU-internal emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) for emission …-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be linked at some time to a Kyoto emissions … into account potential linkages between the Kyoto emissions market and the EU ETS. We find that Russia may have incentives …

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse … emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and quantitative terms within a partial equilibrium framework for the EU …. It turns out that those firms within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) which at the same time are subject to …

base case we find that the EU implementation of the Kyoto Protocol implies low overall costs and a relatively even cost … marginally but changes the cost distribution significantly, holding total EU emissions constant. …