Research projects

Project CEMAPRE internal

TitlePRISEMA - Pricing of Financial Instruments in Emission Markets - 2026
ParticipantsMiguel A. Damaso, Gonçalo Fonseca, Maria do Rosário Grossinho, João Guerra (Principal Investigator), João Janela, Phuong Nguyen
SummaryThis is a bilateral German-Portuguese Project Pricing of Financial Instruments in Emission Markets,
financed by FCT and DAAD (05/2024-04/2026), with a team of researchers from ISEG and a team of
researchers from the University of Wuppertal (Germany).

The goal of this project is to develop some models for the pricing of financial instruments in the
emissions markets. We will focus on structural models based on the underlying economic factors that
determine the price of carbon certificates. Our goal is to derive forward-backward stochastic
differential equations (FBSDEs) for the allowance pricing process and numerically solve these FBSDEs
and/or the associated partial differential equations (PDEs) or integro-differential equations.

From a theoretical point of view, we will study the well-posedness and existence/uniqueness of
solutions for the FBSDEs and of the associated PDE's or integro-differential equations.
We will also develop efficient finite-difference numerical methods for solving the FBSDEs and
associated PDE's and integro-differential equations.