We investigate the eect of cap-and-trade regulation of CO2 on rm prots byperforming an event study of a CO2 price crash in the EU market. We examinereturns for 90 stocks from carbon intensive industries and 600 stocks in the broadEUROSTOXX index. Firms in carbon intensive, or electricity...

The allocation or assignment of emissions allowances is among the most con-tentious elements of the design of emissions trading systems. Policy-makers usuallytry to satisfy a range of goals through the allocation process, including easing thetransition costs for high-emissions rms, reducing...

The main objective of this report is to describe a decision-support system for dynamic retailpricing and promotion planning. Our weekly demand model incorporates price, referenceprice effects, seasonality, article availability information, features and discounts. Building onprevious research, we...

Changing noise levels have a severe impact on house prices and through the leveragein nancing on households wealth. This risk is essential for houses close to airportswith uncertain aircraft regimes. We design and calibrate real options based on aircraftnoise to hedge against noise risk. The...

We consider an homogeneous class of assets, whose returns are driven by an unobservablefactor. We derive approximated prediction and pricing formulas for the future factorvalues and their proxies, when the size n of the class is large. Up to order 1=n, these approximationsinvolve solely...

We develop a convenient structural framework for the joint model-ing of credit spreads, stock prices, stock options and basket creditderivatives, using a multivariate structural ¯rm value model withskewed asset returns. We show that our setting successfully addressesseveral empirical facts,...

Die vorstehenden Überlegungen zeigen die Komplexität eines Versuches auf, Cash SettledEquity-Instrumente kapitalmarktrechtlich einzufangen, um die Umgehung vonMitteilungspflichten und das Anschleichen an Zielunternehmen mit Hilfe dieser Instrumentetunlichst auszuschalten. Diese Schwierigkeiten...

This paper compares emissions trading based on a cap on total emissions (permit trading)and on relative standards per unit of output (credit trading). Two types of market structureare considered: perfect competition and Cournot oligopoly. The effect of combining the twoschemes is also...