ISEFI2020 aims to provide academics, policymakers, and practitioners with a valuable forum for discussion and critical analysis of the major issues and challenges that interrelate energy, environment, macroeconomics and financial markets.
The conference organizers would like to invite the submission of both theoretical and empirical papers (in PDF files) relating to all aspects of energy markets and their interactions with financial markets. We welcome submissions in the following, but not limited to, topics:
- 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
- Electricity networks, smart-grids, 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
- Transportation charges in oil and natural gas industries
The deadline for submission of full papers is the 29th of February 2020.
Professor Till Requate studied Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy and Sports Science, and graduated in Mathematics and Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 1985. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1989 with a thesis on game theory and industrial organisation. He received his Habilitation in 1994. Prof. Requate was assistant professor at the University of Bielefeld from 1990 to 1995 held a position as associate professor at the University of Oldenburg from 1995 to 1996, and was appointed full professor for Environmental Economics and as director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Environmental Economics at the University of Heidelberg in 1996. Since 2002 Prof. Requate is a professor for innovation economics, competition policy, and new institutional economics at Kiel University. Environmental regulation and impacts on competition but also experimental economics are major fields of interest.
Prof. Requate was awarded a von-Bennigsen-Foerder-Preis in 1990 and the Eric-Kempe prize awarded by the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics and the University of Umea in 2004.
As a visiting scholar Prof. Requate was a guest at the University of California at San Diego (1989), California Institute of Technology (1992), University of Boulder, Colorado, (1993), University of Arizona at Tucson (2001), University of Florida at Orlando (2004), California Polytechnical State University at San Luis Obispo (2009), North Carolina State University at Raleigh (2012), University of Science at Penang, Malaysia (2008, 2009, 2012).
Moreover, Prof. Requate was former Managing Editor of Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Associate Editor of the European Economic Review. He is on the editorial board of Resource and Energy Economics, Economics and Environmental Economics, and Policy Studies. He organized several national and international scientific conferences (such as program chair of German economic Meeting, Magdeburg 2009, local organizer of German economic Meeting, Kiel 2010, program co-chair of EAERE, Rome 2011).
He also worked as a consultant for governments and NGOs, notably the World Bank, InWent (organizing the 4th and the 7th ASEAN capacity building workshop at Langkawi, Malaysia 2009 and Brunei 2010), the German Federal Ministry of Research and Science (BMBF), the Danish Ministry for Agriculture and Fishery, and for OECD, Paris.
DISTINGUISHED INVITED SPEAKERS
Professor Roger Guesnerie, Chaired Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France & Chairman of the board of directors of the Paris School of Economics

Professor Guesnerie is currently the Chaired Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France, Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the Chairman of the Board of directors of the Paris School of Economics.
He has been elected president of several scholarly societies, notably the French Association of Economic Sciences (2002–2003), the Econometric Society (1996), and the European Economic Association (1994). Guesnerie has been elected as an foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association and as a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as co-editor of Econometrica (1984–1989) and as foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies. In France, Guesnerie’s research has been recognized with the CNRS Silver medal. He has been declared to be a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.