Cognitive Bias in Emissions Tradingopen access
- Authors
- Song, Jae-Do; Ahn, Young-Hwan
- Issue Date
- Mar-2019
- Publisher
- MDPI Open Access Publishing
- Keywords
- emissions trading; cognitive bias; consignment auction; climate policy
- Citation
- Sustainability, v.11, no.5, pp 1 - 13
- Pages
- 13
- Journal Title
- Sustainability
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 13
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/3715
- DOI
- 10.3390/su11051365
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Abstract
- This study investigates whether cognitive biases such as the endowment effect and status quo bias occur in emissions trading. Such cognitive biases can serve as a barrier to trade. This study’s survey-based experiments, which include hypothetical emissions trading scenarios, show that the endowment effect does occur in emissions trading. The status quo bias occurs in only one of the three experiments. This study also investigates whether accumulation of experience can reduce cognitive bias as discovered preference hypothesis expects. The results indicate that practitioners who are supposed to have more experience show no evidence of having less cognitive bias. Contrary to the conventional expectation, the practitioners show significantly higher level of endowment effect than students and only the practitioners show a significant status quo bias. A consignment auction situation, which is used in California’s cap-and-trade program, is also tested; no significant difference between general permission trading and consignment auctions is found.
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