Call for Papers
Energy Finance Conference

Trondheim, 4-5 October 2012

The energy markets are developing rapidly, with new marketplaces emerging globally for oil, gas, coal, eletricity, emission, and related energy markets. The conference will focus on recent trends in modeling and management of risk in energy markets with speakers from both industry and academia.

TOPICS: We welcome presentations in the following areas:
- Financial- and economic analysis of Oil, GasOil, Natural Gas, Coal, Carbon, Electricity and related energy markets
- Derivative pricing and hedging of energy derivatives
- Analysis of production planning/value chains in the energy sector
- Real option analysis in the energy sector
- Econometric analysis of energy markets
- Corporate Finance analysis for energy companies
- Finance and investment of renewable energy projects
- Decision modelling/operational research methods applied to the energy sector

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: The two-day conference will feature invited speakers and contributed talks. We invite all interested researchers to send in papers for consideration to be presented at the conference. Please submit extended abstracts or papers in pdf or word format to this email address: ef2012@iot.ntnu.no by June 1, 2012.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Keynote speakers cover people from the energy industry and academic organizations globally.

Energy Industry Keynote Speakers:
- Knut Evensen, Vice President Investor Relations, Det Norske
- Christian Torringseng, Chief Risk Officer, Tronder Energi
- Dipeng Chen, Senior Analyst - Valuation Group, Centrica

Academic Keynote Speakers:
- Derek Bunn, Professor of Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations, London Business School
- Rafal Weron, Professor of Economics, Department of organization and management, Wroclaw University
- Stephan Tuerk, Co-Director Centre for Financial Risk - Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, Macquaire University, Sydney
- Bruce Bullock, Director Maguire Energy Institute, SMU Cox School of Business, Dallas
- Carl Ullrich, Assistant Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, Pamplin College of Business Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

SPECIAL ISSUE: We are happy to announce that a special issue of the Journal of Energy Markets will be published with papers from the conference. All speakers at the conference are invited to submit their papers to this special issue. Submitted papers will undergo the usual refereeing process.

BEST PAPER AWARD: There will be a "best paper award" sponsored by Eidsiva Energi and Tafjord Kraft for papers which contain results with a high potential for industrial applications. Authors who want to qualify for such an award should submit the complete version of the paper by 1 September, 2012.

LOCATION: The conference will take place at Rica Nedre Elvehavn hotel. Registration and hotel bookings will be done trough our travel agency Via Travel.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this event is to stimulate an ongoing international dialogue among academics, practitioners, and policymakers with mutual interests in energy markets, energy companies and energy project investments. The workshop is organised with financial support from the ongoing research project ELCARBONRISK and our university research center CENSES at the department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management - Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The organisation comittee consist of the following people:

CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: Sjur Westgaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

CO-CHAIRMAN: Stein-Erik Fleten (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Per Bjarte Solibakke (Molde University College), Gudbrand Lien (Lillehammer University College), Rafal Weron (Wroclaw University), Derek Bunn (London Business School), Fred Espen Benth (University of Oslo), Ruediger Kiesel (University Duisburg Essen), Ronald Huisman (Erasmus University)

SECRETARY OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE: Peter Molar (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.iot.ntnu.no/ef2012