Fankhauser, Samuel and Hepburn, Cameron (2009) Carbon markets in space and time. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 3. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK.
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This paper analyses the design of carbon markets in time (intertemporally) and space (geographically) from first principles, starting initially with a relatively clean slate and asking what an optimal global carbon market would look like by around 2030. Our focus is on firmlevel trading systems, although much of what we say would also apply to government-level trading (e.g., AAU trading under the Kyoto Protocol). We examine the “first principles” of design to maximise flexibility and to minimise costs, consider temporal design including banking and borrowing and other mechanisms to provide greater carbon price predictability and credibility over time, and consider spatial elements, examining the key design issues in linking national and regional carbon markets together to create a global carbon market.
|Item Type:||Monograph (Working Paper)|
|Additional Information:||© 2009 The Author|
|Library of Congress subject classification:||G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
J Political Science > JZ International relations
|Journal of Economic Literature Classification System:||H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q41 - Demand and Supply
|Sets:||Research centres and groups > Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Collections > Economists Online
|Date Deposited:||26 Jul 2011 15:13|
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