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Options introduction and volatility in the EU ETS

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To improve risk management in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). the European Climate Exchange (ECX) has introduced option instruments in October 2006. The central question we address is: can we identify a potential destabilizing effect of the introduction of options on the underlying market (EUA futures)? Indeed, the literature on commodities futures suggest that the introduction of derivatives may either decrease (due to more market depth) or increase (due to more speculation) volatility. As the identification of these effects ultimately remains an empirical question, we use daily data from April 2005 to April 2008 to document volatility behavior in the EU E. By instrumenting various GARCH models, endogenous break tests, and rolling window estimations, our results overall suggest that the introduction of the option market had the effect of decreasing the level of volatility in the EU ETS while impacting its dynamics. These findings are fairly robust to other likely influences linked to energy and commodity markets.

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hal-00991848 , version 1 (16-05-2014)

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Julien Chevallier, Yannick Le Pen, Benoît Sévi. Options introduction and volatility in the EU ETS. Resource and Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (4), pp.855-880. ⟨10.1016/j.reseneeco.2011.07.002⟩. ⟨hal-00991848⟩
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