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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (11): 65-80.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2023.0343

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Production Decision-making Optimization and Emission Behavioral Analysis under Emission Permits Price Uncertainty

Jinfeng Sun1(), Hongxi Sheng1, Xiangpei Hu2   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management,China University of Petroleum (East China),Qingdao 266580,China
    2.School of Economics and Management,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China
  • Received:2023-03-03 Revised:2023-07-25 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-11-28
  • Contact: Jinfeng Sun E-mail:sunjinfeng123@upc.edu.cn

Abstract:

The key challenge for emission enterprises is how to weigh the rationality of production decision and the legality of emission behavior under the price uncertainty of emission permits. In view of the measurability and availability of historical prices of emissions trading under different trading mechanisms in reality, a data-driven approach based on kernel density estimation is proposed to construct an uncertainty set for a given confidence level to characterize the uncertainty of emissions trading prices. And a robust optimization model based on the minimum-maximum regret value criterion is used to study the production decision optimization and emission behavior of emission enterprises under two commonly used mechanisms: the government reserve offer/buyback mechanism and the enterprise transfer transaction mechanism. The results show that the optimal production decisions of emission rights sellers and conservative producers are not directly related to the trading price of emission rights under the government reserve transfer/buy-back mechanism, while the production decisions of emission rights buyers are directly related to the trading price and the profit maximization can be achieved by choosing illegal over-emissions when the robust trading price is below a certain level. Under the enterprise transfer transaction mechanism, the production decisions of enterprises are closely related to the trading price of emission rights, and when the robust trading price of emission rights is higher than a certain value, the purchasing enterprises can obtain the maximum profit by following the legal emission. The empirical analysis not only reveals the characteristics and laws of the market behavior of emissions trading under the two trading mechanisms, but also indicates what emissions trading strategies enterprises should adopt to achieve their optimal production decisions under different mechanisms, and provides a scientific basis for the government to set the amount of fines for illegal over-emissions, so that the research results are more practical guidance for the implementation of the “efficient market and effective government” system of emissions trading.

Key words: pollution rights trading, production decision optimization, emission behavior, uncertainty set, robust optimization

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