Do Price Barriers Exist in the European Carbon Market?

Fernando Palao and Angel Pardo

Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2018, vol. 19, issue 1, 111-124

Abstract: It is generally thought that psychological prices in markets primarily traded by professional participants should play a limited role. The authors investigate the existence of key reference points in the European Carbon Market, which can be considered as a market with highly qualified stakeholders. They document the presence of key levels and barrier bands around European Union Allowances (EUA) prices. It appears that traders tend to consider these price levels as resistances in upward movements and as supports in downward movements. Furthermore, the authors have observed that the existence of price barriers affects both return and volume dynamics. Therefore, the results indicate that there exist certain EUA prices that do, in fact, modify the behavior of European Carbon Market participants.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2017.1366492

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