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Economic Implications of Alternative Allocation Schemes for Emission Allowances

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Christoph Böhringer
Andreas Lange

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For reasons of political feasibility, emission trading systems may have to rely on free initial allocation of emission allowances in order to ameliorate adverse production and employment effects in dirty industries. Against the background of an emerging European-wide emission trading system, we examine the trade-off between such compensation and economic efficiency under output-based and emissions-based allocation rules. We show that the emissions-based allocation rule is more costly than the output-based rule in terms of maintaining output and employment in energy-intensive industries. When the international allowance price increases, the inferiority of emissions-based allocation "vis-à-vis" output-based allocation becomes more pronounced, as emission subsidies drastically restrict efficiency gains from international trade in emission allowances. Copyright The editors of the "Scandinavian Journal of Economics", 2005 .

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Volume (Year): 107 (2005)
Issue (Month): 3 (09)
Pages: 563-581
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