Emissions Trading Institutional Design, Decision Making and Corporate Strategies

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of env...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Antes, Ralf (Editor), Hansjürgens, Bernd (Editor), Letmathe, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Institutional design
  • Companies and regulators in emissions trading programs
  • Business and emissions trading from a public choice perspective – waiting for a new paradigm to emerge
  • Product-based benchmarks as a basis for the rational use of energy and corporate sustainability
  • Double Auction experiments and their relevance for emissions trading
  • The influence of the allocation method on market liquidity, volatility and firms’ investment decisions
  • Investment and corporate decisions
  • Studying the effects of CO2 emissions trading on the electricity market: A multi-agent-based approach
  • Real options analysis for renewable energy technologies in a GHG emissions trading environment
  • The European electricity market – impact of emissions trading
  • A case study on risk and return implications of emissions trading in power generation investments
  • Investment decisions and emissions trading
  • Corporate strategies
  • Emissions trading and Corporate Sustainability Management
  • Links of corporate energy management strategies in Europe with the European Union emissions trading system and environmental management systems
  • The implementation of emissions trading in companies
  • Corporate strategy and the Kyoto mechanisms – institutional and transaction cost perspectives
  • Understanding business participation in UK emissions trading: dimensions of choice and influences on market development
  • Corporate response to emissions trading in Lithuania