Call For Papers
9th Energy & Finance and 4th INREC Conference

Essen, October 9-11, 2013

Registration for the conference is now open

http://www.lef.wiwi.uni-due.de/en/research/conference-energyfinance-2013/registration

Energy markets and related products are developing in many directions and for various reasons. In recent years we have witnessed the emergence of new global marketplaces for electricity, gas, weather derivatives and emissions. The development of some of these markets is a consequence of changes in regulation - for instance the increase of the market share in renewables - and others due to the emergence of energy products as an important asset class. The aim of the conference is to contribute to the ongoing international dialogue among academics, practitioners, policy-makers, and energy companies.

TOPICS: Topics of particular interest are:
- Financial and economic analysis of oil, gasoil, natural gas, coal, carbon, electricity and related energy markets
- Derivative pricing and hedging of energy derivatives
- Risk management in the energy sector
- Real option analysis of investment and financing of renewable energy projects

SPECIAL SESSIONS: There will be special sessions on:
- Weather Derivative
- Energy in the Gulf States

The three-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 Ruediger Kiesel ( sekretariat.lef@wiwinf.uni-due.de) by September 1, 2013.

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.

There will be a "Best paper award" sponsored by RWE Supply & Trading for a paper with a high potential for industrial applications and the "DK Gupta Memorial best PhD paper awards" sponsored by R-square RiskLab.

KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS: Rene Carmona (Princeton University), Wolfgang Hardle (Humboldt University), Fred Espen Benth (University of Oslo), Sjur Westgaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim), Luca Taschini (London School of Economics), Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto), Chitro Majumdar (R-square RiskLab).

OPENING ADDRESS: Peter Terium (CEO, RWE AG)

FURTHER INFORMATION: The event is organized jointly between the Chair for Energy Trading (Ruediger Kiesel), the Chair for Energy Economics (Christoph Weber), the Centre of Mathematics for Applications (CMA) at the University of Oslo (Fred Espen Benth) and University College London (Alvaro Cartea).

WEBSITE: http://www.lef.wiwi.uni-due.de/en/research/conference-energyfinance-2013