In the UK electricity market generators are obliged to produce a certain amount of their electricity with renewable energy resources in accordance with the Renewable Obligation Order. This obligation comes with an (indirect) subsidy rewarding firms with tradable green certificates for their...

Introducing a ceiling on total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and allowing polluting industries to buy and sell permits to meet it (known as a cap-and-trade system) affects investment strategies, generation quantities, and prices in electricity markets. In this paper we analyze these effects...

With the increase of the linear reduction factor (LRF), the implementation of the market stability reserve (MSR) and the introduction of the cancellation mechanism (CM), the EU ETS changed fundamentally. We develop a discrete time model of the intertemporal allowance market that accurately...

Recently, several articles rely on marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves to analyze the EU ETS. While the assumptions on MAC curves drive the results, the prevailing literature on the EU ETS does not take the shape of MAC curves into account. This paper discusses the implications of MAC curve...

The latest reform of European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) enables overlapping policies, such as national coal phase-outs, to affect total emissions. For evaluatingoverlapping policies, this paper applies a detailed partial equilibrium model of the EU ETS.Under perfect foresight,...

Mit der Einführung des europäischen Emissionshandelssystems kommt es zwangs-läufig zu einer Überschneidung der Regelungsbereiche mit der in Deutschland be-reits existierenden Ökosteuer. In diesem Artikel wird diskutiert, inwieweit durch die direkte und indirekte Interaktion beider...

Starting in 2005, the EU will implement a CO2 emissions trading scheme. In this paper we show that the outspoken goals of economic efficiency and free allocation of allowances are incompatible with harmonized allocation rules. In general, the assignment of allowances is endogenous and differs...

The combination of emissions trading and emissions taxes is usually rejected as redundant or inefficient. This conclusion is based on the restrictive assumption that both policies are exclusively meant to control pollution. However, particularly taxes may pursue a variety of other policy...

If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition's equilibrium policy distorts trade and it is not time consistent. By adding a market for the right to...

Gegenwärtig sind die verschiedenen Energieträger in Deutschland unterschiedlich stark mit Abgaben und Umlagen belastet. Um die energie- und klimapolitischen Ziele der Bundesregierung zu erreichen, müssen fossile Heiz- und Kraftstoffe stärker bepreist werden (Kemfert et al. 2019; Dertinger und...