This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally. It provides a critical microstructure analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), and also examines the theoretical and related market design issues affecting emissions...

Introduction -- Fundamentals of commodity economics : supply -- Fundamentals of commodity economics : demand -- Fundamentals of commodity derivatives -- Economics & financial activities behind derivatives -- Real optionality & valuation -- Commodity beta : diversification and inflation...

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...

Zum Schutz der Umwelt wird in Deutschland vornehmlich eine Politik der Verbote, Gebote und der technischen Standards betrieben. Dieses Buch ist ein Plädoyer für mehr Marktwirtschaft in der Umweltpolitik. Die Simulationsrechnungen mit dem empirisch fundierten und tief untergliederten...