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The Chicago Climate Exchange and Market Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis
In: Environ Econ Policy Stud (2017) 19: 711. Doi.org/10.1007/s10018-016-0171-4
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Market effects of voluntary climate action by firms: evidence from the Chicago climate exchange
In: CESifo working paper seriess 3445
In: Energy and climate economics
Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly mixed. This paper uses 19 years of monthly stock price returns to examine the profitability of participation in the world's largest voluntary greenhouse gas mitigation program: the Chicago Climate Exchange. After controlling for systemic market risk as well as industry-specific shocks, we find no statistically significant impact of announcing to join CCX on excess returns. However, the market appeared to be sensitive to changes in abatement costs implied by CCX membership. Most strikingly, the progress of proposed greenhouse gas legislation (the Waxman-Markey bill) had a positive impact on excess returns for CCX member firms, suggesting that the most profitable incentive for firms to join CCX is to prepare for future regulation. Our results imply that relying on voluntary approaches alone to combat climate change may not be enough.
Market effects of voluntary climate action by firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly mixed. This paper uses 19 years of monthly stock price returns to examine the profitability of participation in the world's largest voluntary greenhouse gas mitigation program: the Chicago Climate Exchange. After controlling for systemic market risk as well as industry-specific shocks, we find no statistically significant impact of announcing to join CCX on excess returns. However, the market appeared to be sensitive to changes in abatement costs implied by CCX membership. Most strikingly, the progress of proposed greenhouse gas legislation (the Waxman-Markey bill) had a positive impact on excess returns for CCX member firms, suggesting that the most profitable incentive for firms to join CCX is to prepare for future regulation. Our results imply that relying on voluntary approaches alone to combat climate change may not be enough.
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Market Effects of Voluntary Climate Action by Firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3445
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Market Effects of Voluntary Climate Action by Firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 55, Heft 2, S. 291-308
ISSN: 1573-1502
Carbon Financial Instruments, thin trading, and volatility: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
In: The quarterly review of economics and finance, Band 51, Heft 4, S. 399-407
ISSN: 1062-9769
EXCHANGE - Climate Change: What Role For Reform?
In: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Band 65, Heft 11, S. 49-50
ISSN: 0027-0520
The Transnational Exchange of Law Through Climate Change Litigation
In: Forthcoming in F. Sindico, K. McKenzie, L. Wegener, G. Medici eds., Research Handbook on Climate Change Litigation, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
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Splintering South: Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory in a Fragmented Global Climate
The article examines the changing nature of politics in the United Nations climate negotiations through the lens of ecologically unequal exchange theory, focusing on the lead up to and aftermath of the 2015 Paris negotiations. We identify and discuss three areas of tension that have emerged within the G-77 coalition: tensions within the global semi-periphery, tensions between the semi-periphery and periphery, and tensions within the periphery. Together, these tensions challenge the main link of solidarity in the G-77 coalition: the idea that all countries in the global South share a common predicament in the global system, with the North solely to blame. Drawing upon this case, we offer three related insights to develop ecologically unequal exchange theory. First, theory and empirical work must better consider the role of the semi-periphery, and divisions within the semi-periphery, in reproducing ecologically unequal societies. Second, theory should account for how fragmentation between the periphery and semi-periphery may produce distinct challenges for peripheral states to resist governance forms which intensify ecologically unequal exchange. Third, theory should better account for the ways in which ecologically unequal exchange as mobilized as a collective action frame reflects and diverges from the real-world distribution of environmental goods and bads in the world system.
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Fueling Injustice: Globalization, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Climate Change
In: Globalizations, Band 4, Heft 2
ISSN: 1474-7731
Fueling Injustice: Globalization, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Climate Change
In: Globalizations, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 193-210
ISSN: 1474-774X
Fueling Injustice: Globalization, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Climate Change
In: Globalizations, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 193-210
ISSN: 1474-774X
Transformational leadership, trusting climate, and knowledge-exchange behaviors in Taiwan
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 23, Heft 6, S. 1057-1073
ISSN: 1466-4399
Splintering South: Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory in a Fragmented Global Climate
In: Journal of world-systems research, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 372-398
ISSN: 1076-156X
The article examines the changing nature of politics in the United Nations climate negotiations through the lens of ecologically unequal exchange theory, focusing on the lead up to and aftermath of the 2015 Paris negotiations. We identify and discuss three areas of tension that have emerged within the G-77 coalition: tensions within the global semi-periphery, tensions between the semi-periphery and periphery, and tensions within the periphery. Together, these tensions challenge the main link of solidarity in the G-77 coalition: the idea that all countries in the global South share a common predicament in the global system, with the North solely to blame. Drawing upon this case, we offer three related insights to develop ecologically unequal exchange theory. First, theory and empirical work must better consider the role of the semi-periphery, and divisions within the semi-periphery, in reproducing ecologically unequal societies. Second, theory should account for how fragmentation between the periphery and semi-periphery may produce distinct challenges for peripheral states to resist governance forms which intensify ecologically unequal exchange. Third, theory should better account for the ways in which ecologically unequal exchange as mobilized as a collective action frame reflects and diverges from the real-world distribution of environmental goods and bads in the world system.