Environmental and Production Rights Futures: A New Booming Market?

Derivatives Quarterly

Posted: 14 Oct 1997

See all articles by Joost M. E. Pennings

Joost M. E. Pennings

Maastricht University; Wageningen University and Research (WUR); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Matthew T.G. Meulenberg

Wageningen University and Research (WUR)

Abstract

Governments or supranational organizations have begun to introduce environmental rights (such as sulfur dioxide or chlorofluorocarbon rights) and production rights (such as milk and fishery rights) to better link production process costs and results. The authors show that the characteristics of these rights make them quite suitable for futures trading. They are an efficient tool for hedging against adverse fluctuations both in prices of rights and in the profit capacity of complicated production processes.

JEL Classification: G13, Q2, Q3, G10

Suggested Citation

Pennings, Joost M. E. and Meulenberg, Matthew T.G., Environmental and Production Rights Futures: A New Booming Market?. Derivatives Quarterly, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=36305

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Matthew T.G. Meulenberg

Wageningen University and Research (WUR) ( email )

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