The conference organizers would like to invite the submission of theoretical and empirical papers (in PDF files) relating to all aspects of the environment, energy markets, and their interactions with financial markets. We welcome submissions in the following, but not limited to, topics:
Climate finance
Climate negotiations and scenarios for a +2° world
Corporate finance analysis for energy companies
Econometrics of energy markets
Energy and climate models
Energy and environment
Energy derivatives: pricing and hedging
Energy and financial market interactions
Energy issues in developing and emerging markets
Energy policies for low-carbon transportation
Energy prices: modeling and forecasting
Energy risks: assessment and modeling
Energy transition
Electricity networks, smart grids, and electricity demand
Financial and economic analysis of energy markets
Financial regulation of energy and environmental markets
Finance and investment in renewable energy
Intergenerational choices under global environmental change
Hydroelectricity and water management
Natural resources, risk, welfare, and social preferences
Oil and shale gas
Poverty and environmental impacts of electricity price reforms
Renewable and low carbon technologies policy
Speculation and energy prices
State regulation and energy governance
The deadline for submission of full papers is 31 March 2023.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Stefan Ambec, Toulouse School of Economics & Director, TSE Energy and Climate Center, France
Stefan Ambec is INRAE Research Professor at Toulouse School of Economics, where he leads the TSE Energy and Climate Center. He is Editor-in-Chief for Resource and Energy Economics. He also holds positions as a member at the editorial board of the "Journal of Environmental Economics and Management" and at the editorial council of the "Journal of the Association of Environmental Economists". His research focuses on the impacts of environmental policies: their efficiency, fairness properties, their effect on firms’ strategies, the welfare of citizens, and their behavior. Topics include energy transition, water use, air quality, and climate change. His research has been published in Academy of Managemlent Perspectives, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Resource and Energy Economics and several other academic journals.
Christiane Baumeister, Lambert Family Professor, University of Notre Dame, United States
Christiane Baumeister is the Robert H. Lambert, Class of 1940, Helen B. Lambert, Mary E. Lambert, and Michael P. Lambert Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame where she currently also serves as the Associate Chair. She is an empirical macroeconomist whose research focuses on the dynamics of energy markets and the transmission of monetary policy. Much of her recent work is concerned with Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressive models. Her research has been published in Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the International Economic Review, and several other scholarly journals. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She also holds positions as a Research Professor at the Research Center of Deutsche Bundesbank and the University of Pretoria. Prior to joining Notre Dame in July 2015, she was a Principal Researcher in the International Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada.
INVITED GUEST SPEAKER
Lutz Kilian, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, United States
Dr. Lutz Kilian is one the leading experts on global oil markets. He has been a Senior Economic Policy Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas since the summer of 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and his M.A. in Development Banking from The American University in 1988. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1996, where he was tenured in 2002 and promoted to Professor of Economics in 2008. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked for the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. During 2001-03 he served as the research adviser to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Dr. Kilian has been a research visitor at the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He has also been a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Trade Organization, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada, the European Parliament, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration, among others. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Analysis, the Center for Financial Studies, the CESifo, and the Euro Area Business Cycle Network and an officer of the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA). Dr. Kilian's work has appeared in leading general interest and field journals in economics and statistics. His research interests include time series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and energy economics. Together with Helmut Lütkepohl, he is the author of the Cambridge University Press textbook Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis.
April 20, 2023: Extended Submission deadline (full paper, PDF files)
April 25, 2023: Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 1, 2023: Registration deadline
May 25-26, 2023: Symposium event
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