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Designing Organizations for Trading Pollution Rights

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  • Ledyard, John O.
  • Szakaly, Kristin E.

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Regulators and academicians have recently become interested in using a marketable permits program as a new way to control aggregate pollution emissions. Our research focuses on choosing a permit trading mechanism that is both economically efficient and politically viable. We consider an organized trading process and a revenue neutral auction, both of which involve an initial allocation of permits based on past history. Each is tested in a non-monopolistic and monopolistic environment to determine which mechanism performs best. The results suggest that, overall, the organized trading process outperforms the revenue neutral auction.
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  • Ledyard, John O. & Szakaly, Kristin E., "undated". "Designing Organizations for Trading Pollution Rights," Working Papers 838, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:clt:sswopa:838
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