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1 A Description of the Carbon Markets and Their Role in Climate Change Mitigation |
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1.1 Why Do We Need Emissions Trading Markets? |
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1.1.1 The Science of Climate Change |
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1.2 Policy Developments and the Paris Agreement |
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1.3 Economic Principles Underlying Emissions Trading as a Policy Tool |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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1.4 The European Union Emissions Trading System |
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1.4.2 EUA Price Evolutions |
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1.5 Carbon Pricing and the Future |
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2 Introduction to Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations |
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2.1 Backward Stochastic Differential Equations |
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2.1.1 Well-Posedness of BSDEs |
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2.1.1.2 The Comparison Theorem |
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2.1.2 Application to Non-linear Pricing |
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2.1.2.1 Super-Replication in a Perfect Market |
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2.1.2.2 A Non-linear Market |
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2.1.3 Applications to Stochastic Control |
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2.1.4.1 Constrained BSDEs |
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2.1.4.2 The Non-lipschitz Setting |
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2.1.4.3 McKean--Vlasov FBSDEs |
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2.2.1 First Definition and Markov Property |
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2.3 Coupled Forward-Backward SDEs |
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2.3.1 The Pontryagin Approach to Stochastic Control Problems |
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2.3.2 Well-Posedness of FBSDEs in Small Time Duration |
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2.3.2.1 Existence and Uniqueness |
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2.3.2.2 The Decoupling Field and a Quasilinear PDE |
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2.3.3 Existence and Uniqueness for Arbitrary Terminal Time |
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2.3.3.1 Non-degenerate Diffusion Coefficient |
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2.3.3.2 FBSDEs with Singular Coefficients |
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40 | (3) |
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3 A Mathematical Model for Carbon Emissions Markets |
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3.3 The Bid Stack, Emissions Stack and Emissions Rate |
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3.4 Risk-Neutral Dynamics of Random Factors |
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51 | (1) |
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3.5 The Single-Period Allowance Pricing FBSDE |
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52 | (1) |
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3.6 Extension to a Multi-period Emissions Trading System |
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4 Numerical Approximation of FBSDEs |
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4.2 A Markovian Iteration Scheme for Fully Coupled FBSDEs |
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4.3 Computation of Conditional Expectations Using Regression |
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4.4 Numerical Examples of the Scheme's Convergence |
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4.4.1 Bender and Zhang Test Model |
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4.4.2 Numerical Investigation of a Simple Singular FBSDE 71 References |
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5 A Case Study of the UK Energy Market |
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5.1 Introduction: An Explicit Model |
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5.2 Specifying the Dynamics of the Market Factors |
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5.2.1 Estimating the Seasonal Component |
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5.2.2 Fitting the Diffusion Processes |
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5.3 Estimating the Bid Stack and Emissions Rate |
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89 | (3) |
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5.4 Simulation Methodology |
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92 | (3) |
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95 | (8) |
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