This paper investigates whether a common factor, which can be interpreted as a shadow carbon price, can be extracted from price series in 13 major national and subnational emission trading systems (ETSs). For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic factor model accounting for information...

We examine whether mandatory climate reporting leads to changes in firms’ carbon emissions. Using propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences design, we assess the effects of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), introduced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in...