Time-variation in the persistence of carbon price uncertainty: The role of carbon policy uncertainty

Oguzhan Cepni, Luis A. Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta and Onur Polat

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2025, vol. 102, issue C

Abstract: We estimate models of fractional integration to determine the degree of persistence for two recently developed metrics of carbon price uncertainty: the Carbon VIX and Carbon Implied Volatility (CIV) covering the period of the 1st week of September 2013 to the 4th week of December 2022. First, we find the two metrics to be highly persistent but depicting mean-reversion with long-memory. Second, time-varying (recursive) estimation revealed that the underlying persistence is on a downward trend. Third, we show that the recent reduction in persistence of carbon price uncertainties is a result of declining carbon policy uncertainty — a metric we develop using aggregate information on squared surprises of carbon futures price of various maturities. Given that carbon price uncertainty has been shown to negatively affect decarbonization investments, our findings have important implications for the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS).

Keywords: Carbon price uncertainty; Fractional integration; Persistence; Regulatory events; Carbon policy uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 D80 Q52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2025.102004

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