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Overview
The School of Economics and Management of Leibniz University Hannover and the Hannover Center of Finance and Insurance e.V. will host the Conference on Climate and Energy Finance on 3 & 4 November 2023.
The aim of the conference is to present and discuss high-quality research in all areas of climate and energy finance.
We welcome submissions from all areas related to climate and energy finance, including:- Micro and macroeconomic analysis
- Pricing, Hedging, and risk analysis
- Climate econometrics
- Portfolio allocation and optimization
- Coroprate finance and risk management
- Regulation and central bank policy
- Decision models
- Real option analysis
- Managerial accounting & economics
- Global and regional trade
- The role of developing countries
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Keynote Speakers
Jennifer Castle
University of Oxford
Michael Goldstein
Babson College
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Paper Submission
The deadline for paper submissions is midnight EST July 31, 2023. Papers must be in pdf format. Please submit one version without identifying author information and one full version with such information to the following address:
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Venue & Accomodation
The conference will take place at the school of Economics and Management of Leibniz University Hannover which is located in the city center of Hannover. Hannover is the state capital of Lower Saxony and can be easily reached by plane or train. There are direct flights to all major European airports and direct train connections to all major German cities. Accommodation recommendations can be found here.
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Conference Venue
The Conference will take place in the School of Economics and Management of Leibniz University Hannover located at Königsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hannover.
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Conference Organizers
Lena Dräger
Marcel Prokopczuk
Judith Schneider
Jens Robert Schöndube
Marina Schröder
Philipp Sibbertsen
Maximilian Todtenhaupt
Nils Foege
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Participation Fee
The participation fee is € 250 (Full-time PhD students € 150). The fee includes lunches, coffee breaks, and a conference dinner.
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Journal of Commodity Markets, Special Issue
The Journal of Commodity Markets will publish a special issue devoted to the theme of the conference. More details on the submission process will be provided at the conference and on the conference webpage.
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General Schedule Overview
Friday, 03.11.2023
Time
Room TBD
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Room TBD
08:00-09:00 Registration in the Foyer 09:00 – 10:00
Keynote 1 in room 1507|002
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee in the Foyer
10:30 – 12:00Session 1a:
Funds and Sustainable FinanceSession 1b:
Climate Risk and Bond MarketsSession 1c:
Electricity Markets12:00 – 13:00
Lunch in the Foyer
13:00 – 14:30Session 2a:
Carbon PricingSession 2b:
Oil Market, Storage and TransportationSession 2c:
Machine Learning in Energy and Climate Finance14:30 – 15:00
Coffee in the Foyer
15:00 – 16:00Session 3a:
Climate Preferences in the Equity MarketSession 3b:
Speculation in Energy and Carbon MarketsSession 3c:
Banking and Climate Risk16:15 – 17:15
Keynote 2 in room 1507|002
starting 18:30
Drinks, at Brauhaus Ernst August
Schmiedestraße 13
30159 Hannoverstarting 19:00
Dinner, at Brauhaus Ernst August
Schmiedestraße 13
30159 HannoverSaturday, 04.11.2023
09:00 – 10:30Session 4a:
Econometric Modelling of Climate RiskSession 4b:
Corporate Finance, Energy and Carbon MarketsSession 4c:
Impact of Weather and Pollution10:30 – 11:00
Coffee in the Foyer
11:00 – 12:30Session 5a:
Impact and Performance of Green FinanceSession 5b:
Renewable TransitionSession 5c:
Corporate Strategy: Incentives and Inequality12:30 – 14:00
Lunch in the Foyer
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Session Overview, Friday 03.11.2023
Keynote 1 in room 1507|002
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Session 1A:
Funds and Sustainable Finance
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 10:30 - 12:00Session 1B:
Climate Risk and Bond Markets
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 10:30 - 12:00Session 1C:
Electricity Markets
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 10:30 - 12:00Are Investors Paying to Be Green?
Who pays the greenium?
Vulnerability of European Electricity Markets: A Quantile Connectedness Approach
Joop Huij (Rotterdam School of Management)
Dries Laurs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Philip Stork (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Remco C.J. Zwinkels (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)Discussant: Diana Mykhalyuk
Daniel Fricke (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Stephan Jank (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Christoph Meinerding (Deutsche Bundesbank)Discussant: Inès Barahhou
Helena Chuliá (Universitat de Barcelona)
Tony Klein (Queen’s University Belfast)
Jorge A. Muñoz Mendoza (University of Concepcion, Chile)
Jorge M. Uribe (Open University of Catalonia)Discussant: Dongchen He
Resilience of Mutual Funds to Climate Transition Shocks
A framework to align sovereign bond portfolios with net zero trajectories
Electricity Forward Premium: Renewable Integration and Skewness Preference
Diana Mykhalyuk (University of the Basque Country)
Javier Ojea-Ferreiro (Bank of Canada)
Manuel Moreno (University of Castilla-La Mancha)Discussant: Rita Laura D'Ecclesia
Inès Barahhou (Kepler Cheuvreux)
Philippe Ferreira (Kepler Cheuvreux)
Yassine Maalej (Kepler Cheuvreux Solutions)Discussant: Haibo Jiang
Dongchen He (Tilburg Univerisity)
Ronald Huisman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Bert Willems (Tilburg Univerisity)Discussant: Manuel Moreno
Are the Green ETFs Really Green?
Oil Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums
Pricing electricity derivatives: A mean-reverting and seasonal approach
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia (Sapienza University of Rome)
Giacomo Morelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Kevyn Stefanelli (Sapienza University of Rome)Discussant: Dries Laurs
Haibo Jiang (University of Quebec at Montreal)
Discussant: Christoph Meinerding
Ana Simonovic (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Luca Schmiemann (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Manuel Moreno (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
Federico Platania (Institut Superieur de Gestion (ISG))Discussant: Tony Klein
Session 2a:
Carbon Pricing
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 13:00 - 14:30Session 2b:
Oil Market, Storage and Transportation
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 13:00 - 14:30Session 2c:
Machine Learning in Energy and Climate Finance
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 13:00 - 14:30Carbon Pricing and Firm-Level CO2 Abatement: Evidence from a Quarter of a Century-Long Panel
The Dynamics of Storage Costs
Don't Lead Me This Way: Central Bank Guidance at the Age of Climate Change
Gustav Martinsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Per Strömberg (Stockholm School of Economics)
László Sajtos (Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis)
Christian Thomann (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)Discussant: Manuel Moreno
Andrei Stancu (Newcastle University)
Lazaros Symeonidis (University of Essex)
Chardin Wese Simen (University of Liverpool)
Lei Zhao (ESCP Business School, Paris)Discussant: Lingjie Ma
Pauline Cizmic (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Anna Cretí (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Marc Joëts (ESEG School of Management)Discussant: Rita Laura D'Ecclesia
The Beneficial Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on CO2 Emissions: A Matrix Completion Analysis
Forecasting the price of crude oil with a structural model
Mitigating Shortcut Learning Bias in ML: A Case Study in Energy Consumption Prediction
Francesco Biancalani (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca)
Giorgio Gnecco (IMT School for Avanced Studies, Lucca)
Rodolfo Metulini (University of Bergamo)
Massimo Riccaboni (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca)Discussant: Christian Thomann
Lingjie Ma (University of Illinois)
Discussant: Ioannis C. Moutzouris
Matthew Caron (University of Paderborn)
Johannes Kriebel (University of Muenster)
Oliver Müller (University of Paderborn)Discussant: Pauline Cizmic
Pricing of futures on CO2 emission allowances: an empirical approach based on seasonal mean-reverting models
Determinants of the Price Premium for Eco Vessels
The ESG Score and the financial statement: the European case
Alexandra Balado-Alves (Deloitte)
Manuel Moreno (University of Castilla-La Macha)Discussant: Francesco Biancalani
Malvina Marchese (Bayes Business School)
Ioannis C. Moutzouris (Bayes Business School)
Nikos C. Papapostolou (Bayes Business School)
Michael N. Tamvakis (Bayes Business School)Discussant: Lazaros Symeonidis
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia (Sapienza University of Rome)
Susanna Levantesi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Kevyn Stefanelli (Sapienza University of Rome)Discussant: Johannes Kriebel
Session 3a:
Climate Preferences in the Equity Market
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 15:00-16:00Session 3b:
Speculation in Energy and Carbon Markets
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 15:00-16:00Session 3c:
Banking and Climate Risk
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 15:00-16:00Is decarbonization priced in? - Evidence on the carbon risk hypothesis from the European Green Deal leakage shock
EU ETS Market Expectations and Rational Bubbles
Climate Risk and Bank Capital Structure
Lukas Müller (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Marc Ringel (Nuertingen Geislingen University)
Dirk Schiereck (Technical University of Darmstadt)Discussant: Arthur Stalla-Bourdillon
Tony Klein (Queen's University Belfast)
Robinson Kruse-Becher (University of Hagen)
Christoph Wegener (Leuphana University Lüneburg)Discussant: Alireza Zarei
Yassine Bakkar (Queen's University Belfast)
Discussant: Jinhong Wu
Environmental Preferences and Sector Valuations
The Other Side of the Coin: Speculation in Bearish Natural Gas Markets
Climate Risks and Bank Lending
Tristan Jourde (Banque de France)
Arthur Stalla-Bourdillon (Banque de France)Discussant: Lukas Müller
Chanaka N. Ganepola (Alliance Manchester Business School)
Uchenna Tony-Okeke (Coventry University)
Alireza Zarei (Durham University)Discussant: Christoph Wegener
Jinhong Wu (Copenhagen Business School)
Discussant: Yassine Bakkar
Keynote 2 in room 1507|002
Time: 16:15 - 17:15
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Session Overview, Saturday 04.11.2023
Session 4a:
Econometric Modelling of Climate Risk
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 09:00 - 10:30Session 4b:
Corporate Finance, Energy and Carbon Markets
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 09:00 - 10:30Session 4c:
Impact of Weather and Pollution
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 09:00 - 10:30Global Sea ice volume forecasts for the next 100 years using score-driven threshold climate models
Renewable Portfolio Standards and the value of cash
Climate and sovereign risk: the Latin American experience with ENSO events
Szabolcs Blazsek (Francisco Marroquín University)
Álvaro Escribano (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Erzsébet Kristóf (Eötvös Loránd University)Discussant: Elisa Ossola
Ning Gao (Alliance Manchester Business School)
Wenfeng Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Chang Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)Discussant: Santanu Kundu
Olivier Damette (University of Lorraine)
Clément Mathonnat (University of Lorraine)
Julien Thavard (University of Lorraine)Discussant: Buvaneshwaran Venugopal
Green risk in Europe
Internal Carbon Markets and Carbon Emissions
Pollution Risk and Business Activity
Nuno Cassola (University of Libson)
Claudio Morana (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Elisa Ossola (University of Milano-Bicocca)Discussant: Tomás Del Barrio Castro
Santanu Kundu (University of Mannheim)
Discussant: Yufeng Mao
George Zhe Tian (University of Houston)
Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (University of Central Florida)
Vijay Yerramilli (University of Houston)Discussant: Yoontae Jeon
Modeling Seasonalities in Paleoclimate Data
Decoding Corporate Green Bonds: What Issuers Do With the Money and Their Real Impact
Weather Variance Risk Premia
Tomás Del Barrio Castro (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Discussant: Álvaro Escribano
Yufeng Mao (Foster School of Business)
Discussant: Chang Yang
Yoontae Jeon (McMaster University)
Stephen Szaura (BI Norwegian Business School)Discussant: Julien Thavard
Session 5a:
Impact and Performance of Green Finance
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 11:00 - 12:30Session 5b:
Renewable Transition
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 11:00 - 12:30Session 5c:
Corporate Strategy: Incentives and Inequality
Chair: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: 11:00 - 12:30Net-Zero Transition Paths: Facts and Fiction
Price determinants in the carbon neutral hydrogen market
Nash Equilibria in Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit Markets
Kateryna Chekriy (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Rüdiger Kiesel (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Gerhard Stahl (HDI Group)Discussant: Viktória Vidaházy
José Manuel Cueto (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)
Isabel Figuerola Ferreti (Universidad Pontoficia Comillas)
Ignacio Segarra Tamarit (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)Discussant: George Krivorotov
Liam Welsh (University of Toronto)
Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Jonathan Harris
ESG principles: The Limits to Green Benchmarking
Assessing the Profitability of Large-Scale Batteries in the UK Electricity Market
Green Finance and Inequality
Charles-Henri DiMaria (STATEC Research)
Discussant: Kateryna Chekriy
Nina Lange (Technical University of Denmark)
Stefan Røpke (Technical University of Denmark)
Valdemar Frisgaard Øhlenschlæger (Technical University of Denmark)
Nikolaj Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)
Valdemar Frisgaard Øhlenschlæger (Technical University of Denmark)Discussant: Isabel Figuerola Ferreti
Lea Tschan (University of St. Gallen)
Ola Mahmoud (University of St. Gallen)Discussant: Liam Welsh
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Capital Flows
Sectoral Transition Risk in an Environmentally Extended Production Network Model
Pricing Investor Impact
Viktória Vidaházy (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Discussant: Charles-Henri DiMaria
George Krivorotov (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, US Treasury)
Discussant: Nina Lange
Jonathan Harris (Total Portfolio Project)
Discussant: Lea Tschan
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