Strategic Reactions of Airlines to their Inclusion in the European Trading Scheme

Estelle Malavolti (1, 2) , Marion Podesta (3)

1 TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics
2 LEEA - ENAC - Laboratoire d'Economie et d'Econométrie de l'Aérien
3 IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie

The air transport sector entered the European Trading Scheme in 2012 (for the intra-European flights). The regulation of CO2 emissions is costly for airlines and modifies the organization of their market. Our paper proposes an economic analysis in which the regulation but also CO2 emissions of airlines are modeled. We show that, in a perfect competition setting, the difference between passengers carried without regulation and when the regulation is considered is negative for the best-performing planes. However, for the less efficient aircraft, the implementation of the regulation entails a reduction of airlines activity, and therefore a low level of carbon emissions.

Mots clés: Air transport; Emissions Trading Scheme; Regulation

Domaines: Base de données [cs.DB]

Estelle Malavolti, Marion Podesta. Strategic Reactions of Airlines to their Inclusion in the European Trading Scheme. European Transport Conference 2014, Association for European Transport, Sep 2014, Frankfurt, Germany. 34 p. ⟨hal-01114845⟩