The 51st Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Commodities and Financial Modelling (EWGCFM) and 1st Conference of the Energy Management Centre (EMC) & the International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance (ICSTF) took place on 16th-17th-18th of May, 2013 at the ESCP London campus.
The 2013 Conference was organised by the EMC at ESCP Business School in collaboration with the ICSTF at Cass Business School, under the auspices of the Euro Working Group on Commodities and Financial Modelling.
The meeting aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and to present new research results on the theory and modern practice of modelling, risk management and asset pricing, with a special focus on commodities modelling and regulation within the framework of our workshop "Recent Developments on Energy Modelling and Regulation".
Keynote speakers
Ehud Ronn, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Pollitt, University of Cambridge, UK
Jonathan Stern, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK
Peter Steward, Chief Energy Analyst at Interfax, UK
Klaus Schafer, CEO of EON Energy Trading, Germany
Jean-Pierre Favennec, French Institute of Petroleum (IFP), President - Association for the Development of Energy in Africa
Antonio Guglielmi, Director of Mediobanca Securities, UK
Marc Thiele, Head of EU insurance research team
Riccardo Barbieri, Chief economist at Mizuho Bank
Emanuele Minotti, CEO of Theorema Asset Management
Topics
The Conference covered a wide range of topics related to financial modeling, risk management, asset pricing, commodities modelling and regulation, including but not limited to:
- Financial and Commodities Modelling
- Risk Management
- Asset Pricing
- Price Volatility
- Energy Project Finance
- Energy Challenges and Global & Regional Cooperation
- Unconventional Oil and Gas: Technology and Perspectives
- Renewable Energy and Smart Energy Systems
- Climate Change and Policy Challenges
- Role of Government and Government Corporations in Energy Sector
- Greenhouse Gas Policy after Kyoto
- Energy Supply and Demand Security
- The Role of Unconventional Energy Resources
- Policy Consideration in a Carbon Constrained World
- Energy Efficiency in Primary Commodity Production
- Developments in LNG Markets
- Evolving Geopolitics of Oil and Gas
- Emissions Modelling
- Emission Trading Schemes
- Econometric Modelling of Oil and Gas Markets
- Energy Development and the Environment
- Energy Transportation
- Mining, Minerals and Natural Resources
- Stock Market Dynamics
- Quantitative Models and the Financial Crisis