2010 Course Handbook
ECFS905: Emissions Trading
This unit covers the domestic and global policy debate, why governments favour trading over a carbon tax, an overview of the greenhouse scheme currently in operation, how companies will be impacted by a price on carbon, the critical design features of an emissions trading scheme, how emissions trading works, and how the capital markets are responding. It also features a trading simulation to explore decision-making in a carbon constrained world.
| Credit Points: | 2 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Julian Turecek |
| Prerequisites: | (Admission to Master of Applied Finance or Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Finance) and (ECFS865 and ECFS866 with SNG of 60) |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies Faculty of Business and Economics |