Il est établi dans la littérature que la mise en place d’un marché de permis d’émission concurrentiel dans un environnement concurrentiel est une solution coût efficiente pour atteindre un niveau de pollution environnemental. Cependant, lorsqu’on s’éloigne de l’hypothèse...

Cet article s’intéresse au rôle stratégique de l’activité de stockage du gaz et de sa régulation lorsqu’il existe un marché spot de la ressource. Dans la lignée de la littérature sur ce thème, nous envisageons l’activité de stockage comme un instrument de flexibilité pour les...

We empirically reinvestigate the issue of the excess co-movement of commodity prices initially raised in Pindyck and Rotemberg (1990). Excess co-movement appears when commodity prices remain correlated even after adjusting for the impact of fundamentals. We use recent developments in large...

To improve risk management in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the European Climate Exchange (ECX) has introduced option instruments in October 2006 after regulatory authorization. The central question we address is: can we identify a potential destabilizing effect of the...

This paper evaluates convergence of energy intensities for a group of 97 countries in the period 1971-2003. Convergence is tested using a recent method proposed by Pesaran (2007) [M.H. Pesaran. A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence. Journal of Econometrics 138,...

Using daily data from March 2001 to June 2005, we estimate a VAR-BEKK model and find evidence of return and volatility spillovers between the German, the Dutch and the British forward electricity markets. We apply Hafner and Herwartz [2006, Journal of International Money and Finance 25, 719-740]...

We apply Peseran (2007) pairwise approach of convergence to 195 European regions for the period 1980-2002. An index of convergence shows a decline in the average per capita output gap over the period, mainly by convergence between regions of different countries. Next, we estimate the share of...

We empirically reinvestigate the issue of excess comovement of commodity prices initially raised in Pindyck and Rotemberg (1990) and show that excess comovement, when it exists, can be related to hedging pressure and speculative intensity in commodity futures markets. Excess comovement appears...

To improve risk management in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the European Climate Exchange (ECX) has introduced option instruments in October 2006. The central question we address is: can we identify a potential destabilizing effect of the introduction of options on the...