Article ID: | iaor20133438 |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 405 |
End Page Number: | 415 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2012 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | He Pan, Bi Jun, Liu Beibei, Zhang Bing |
Keywords: | economics |
Emission trading is considered to be a cost‐effective environmental economic instrument for pollution control. However, the policy design of an emission trading program has a decisive impact on its performance. Allowance allocation is one of the most important policy design issues in emission trading, not only for equity but also for policy performance. In this research, an artificial market for sulfur dioxide (SO