An Endowment Effect Study in the European Union Emission Trading Market based on Trading Price and Price Fluctuation

Jiqiang Wang, Fu Gu, Yingpeng Liu, Ying Fan and Jianfeng Guo
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Jiqiang Wang: College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Fu Gu: Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Yingpeng Liu: Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Ying Fan: School of Economics & Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Jianfeng Guo: Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: This paper pioneers to investigate the endowment effect in the European Union mission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) as well as the impacts of trading experience and compliance pressure on the endowment effect. This study is based on the complete transaction records of the market. In the data set, the records of two consecutive reverse transactions from a same emitting company are selected. The lowest price that the buyer is willing to pay (WTP) and the maximum price the seller is willing to accept (WTA) are evaluated by excluding their risk cost that is used to avoid short-term fluctuations in the price. By distinguishing the difference between WTA and WTP, and long-term fluctuations in the prices during the two transactions, the trader’s endowment effect can be quantitively assessed. The results show that the degree of endowment effect of traders follows the trading experience. In addition, since the EU ETS is a cap-and-trade market, the traders face different levels of compliance pressure; when the pressure of the emission companies increases, the degree of endowment effect will also decrease.

Keywords: EU ETS; endowment effect; WTA; WTP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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