Published January 1, 2018 | Version v1
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Modeling of carbon credit prices using regime switching approach

  • 1. Bahcesehir Univ, Dept Ind Engn, TR-34353 Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2. Bogazici Univ, Dept Ind Engn, TR-34342 Istanbul, Turkey
  • 3. MEF Univ, Dept Ind Engn, TR-34396 Istanbul, Turkey

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In this study, we analyze the price dynamics of carbon certificates that are traded under the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS). With the aim of investigating the joint relations among carbon, electricity, and fuel prices, we model historical prices using several methods and incorporating structural changes, such as econometric time series, regime switching, and multivariate vector autoregression models. We compare the results of the structural model with the results of traditional Markov switching and autoregressive models with breaks and present performance analysis based on the mean average percentage error, root mean squared error, and coefficient of determination. According to these performance tests, models with regimes outperform the approaches where breaks are defined using ex ante dummy variables. Moreover, we conclude that among regime switching models, univariate models are better than multivariate counterparts for modeling carbon price series for the analysis of both in-sample and out-of-samples. Published by AIP Publishing.

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