Analysing Carbon Pass-Through Rate Mechanism in the Electricity Sector: Evidence from Greece

Athanasios Dagoumas and Michael Polemis ()

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Abstract: In this study, we shed light into the carbon pass-through rate mechanism to wholesale prices in the Greek electric market. For this reason, we utilize a rich micro-level panel, including hourly data for 23 power plants spanning the period January 2014 to December 2017. In order to study the pass-through of emissions costs to wholesale electricity prices, we used an instrumental variable methodology. Our findings survived several robustness checks, accounting for logged linear and non-linear econometric specifications. Moreover, they are in alignment with the relevant recent literature, indicating the existence of an almost complete pass-through rate mechanism. This means that electricity firms almost fully internalize the cost of CO2 permits, incurring important policy implications to policy makers and government officials.

Keywords: Emissions; CO2 permits; Pass-through; Instrumental variable; Electricity industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L94 Q52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12-30
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