Capacity decisions with demand fluctuations and carbon leakage
type: Dataset
description: For carbon-intensive, internationally-traded industrial goods, a unilateral increase in the domestic CO2 price may result in the reduction of the domestic production but an increase of imports. In such sectors as electricity, cement or steel, the trade ows result more from short-term regional disequilibria between supply and demand than from international competition. This paper formalizes this empirical observation and characterizes its impact on leakage. Domestic fi rms invest in home plants under uncertainty; then, as uncertainty unfolds, they may source the home market from their home plants or from imports. We prove that there would be no leakage in the short-term (without capacity adaptation) but there would be in the long-term (with capacity adaption). Furthermore, the larger the uncertainty the larger the leakage is. We also characterize the impacts of uncertainty on the (short-term and long-term) pass-through rates. In the concluding section we discuss the implications of these results for the evaluation of climate policies.
issued: 2026-05-08T00:11:32.902462
language: en
modified: 2026-05-08T00:11:32.902466
contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD
keyword: capacity-decisions
keyword: carbon-leakage
keyword: d81-d92-q56-l13
keyword: demand-fluctuations
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticspreprint
keyword: jel-l---industrial-organizationll1---market-structure-firm-strategy-and-market-performancell1
keyword: jel-q---agricultural-and-natural-resource-economics--environmental-and-ecological-economicsqq5--
keyword: preprints-working-papers-
keyword: shsecohumanities-and-social-scienceseconomics-and-finance
keyword: shsgestionhumanities-and-social-sciencesbusiness-administration
landing page: https://hal.science/hal-00347650

Capacity decisions with demand fluctuations and carbon leakage
type: Distribution
format: HTML
issued: 2026-05-08T00:11:32.913693
modified: 2026-05-08T00:11:32.887271
access URL: https://hal.science/hal-00347650

test_moissonnage_selune
type: Agent