"An Experimental Economic Examination of Market Power in Emission Permit Markets"

Robert Godby 

Ph.D. Dissertation, McMaster University, 1997.

This page includes all thesis pages, by chapter.  Please see the files below, all in PDF format.  Work stemming from this thesis has been published in the following places:

"Experiments in Vertical Integration and Cost Predation," with Brown-Kruse, J. and Elliott, S.R., submitted to the International Journal of Industrial Organization, revised and resubmit, May 2001.

 "Market Power, Vertical Markets and Laboratory Emission Permit Double Auctions", University of Wyoming Working Paper, submitted to the Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2000.  

Publications:

"Market Power in Emission Permit Double Auctions", book chapter in Research in Experimental Economics, Vol. 7, Charles A. Holt and R. Mark Isaac, editors, JAI Press: Greenwich, Connecticut, pp. 121-162, 1999.[Abstract] [PDF]

"Market Power and Emission Trading: Theory and Laboratory Results", Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000. [Abstract] [PDF]

Files:

Introductory pages:

• Title page

• Half-title page

• Thesis Abstract

• Contents

Chapters:

Chapters 1-3
Chapter 4
        Figure 6
        Figure 7
Chapter 5
        Figure 6
        Figure 7
Chapter 6
Chapter 7

Appendices    

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C (Instructions)

Bibliography

Bibliography