The EU Emission Trading Scheme - Aspects of Statehood, Regulation and Accounting

The emission trading scheme is the most recent instrument of the EU environmental policy. Its underlying mechanisms and economic consequences are yet less straightforward than policymakers initially had expected: As this study shows, the regulation probably yields unintended distributional effects and imposes additional risk on the regulated companies. Consequently, meaningful accounting for emission rights is not only a necessity for regulators and customers, who need transparency, but also for investors on capital markets, who bear the additional regulatory risk. This study empirically assesses the usefulness of various accounting alternatives and provides evidence that cost and fair value approaches dominate the widely used mixed models.

List of contents

Contents: Transformation of Environmental and Energy Policies in the EU - Mapping Emission Rights to Financial Accounting and Performance Reporting - Pricing Effects of Emission Right Returns - Interacting Economic Effects of Energy and Allowance Markets - Relative Usefulness of Accounting Treatments for Emission Rights.

About the author

The Author: Stefan Veith, born in 1980, received his graduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Bremen (Germany). He currently works in the Department of Accounting at the University of Bremen. His main areas of interest include accounting regulation, corporate disclosures, environmental policy and energy economics.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Veith
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9783631603154
• ISBN: 978-3-631-60315-4
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 290 g
• Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 5): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / European University Studies (Series 5): Economics and Management / Publica; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 05): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and Management; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 05): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and Management; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration