Conference Program
Conference Program
Keynote speeches take place in Hall A1. Talks of the parallel sessions take place in Hall A1 [Hörsaal A1] (left column) or Hall A2 [Hörsaal A2] (right column).
Preliminary Schedule (as of September 12, 2017)
Day 1 - Tuesday, September 12, 2017:
| Time | Room A1 - Stream Energy Infrastructure and Trading | Room A2 - Stream Macroeconomics |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Registration | |
| 11:00 | Welcome and Introduction | |
| 11:20 | Keynote Speech 1: Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan - Lower Oil Prices and the U.S. Economy: Is This Time Different? | |
| 12:10 | Lunch Break | |
| PS1 | Valuing Flexibility | Consumption & Growth |
| 13:00 | Christian Pape: The Impact of Intraday Markets on the Market Value of Flexibility | Dietmar Lindenberger, Florian Weiser: Analysis of Economic Growth in Germany Using Disaggregated Energy-Dependent Production Functions |
| 13:40 | Sven Böhme: When they go low or high - Hedging instruments for distributional tails | Monika Papiez, Slawomir Smiech, Katarzyna Frodyma: The impact of development of the renewable energy sector in the EU on the relationship between renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth |
| 14:20 | Coffee Break | |
| PS2 | Risk Management | Volatility in Commodities |
| 14:40 | Henrik Specht: Finding an efficient hedge strategy on corporate level | Robinson Kruse, Christoph Wegener: Time-varying persistence in commodity markets and its determinants |
| 15:20 | Duc Khuong Nguyen, Thomas Walther: Identifying the Long-term Volatility Drivers of Commodity Markets | |
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:20 | Keynote Speech 2: Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University - Commodity Prices, Inflation, and Inflation Expectations | |
| 17:30 | Departure from Haus der Technik to Gasometer Oberhausen | |
| 18:00 | Tour at Gasometer Oberhausen | |
| 19:30 | Transfer from Gasometer Oberhausen to Heiner's Restaurant | |
| 20:00 | Dinner | |
| 22:00 | Transfer back to HDT | |
Day 2 - Wednesday, September 13, 2017:
| Time | Room A1 - Stream Energy Infrastructure and Trading | Room A2 - Stream Macroeconomics |
|---|---|---|
| PS3 | Challenges in Financing & Regulation | |
| 09:00 | Nasir Kolade: Empirical Relationship Between Energy Infrastructure, Project Finance and Other Conventional Sources of Financing Using Generalised Method of Moments to Explain the Variations in Energy Projects Financing (Nigerian Energy Sector). | |
| 09:40 | Gunnar Kaestle: Man-Made Wind Eclipse: Market Triggered Step Response of Electric Power Systems |
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| 10:20 | Coffee Break | |
| PS4 | Challenges of Sustainable Power Markets | Shocks, Risk and Uncertainty in Fossil Fuel Markets |
| 10:40 | Julia Bellenbaum: Optimal allocation of transmission capacity between reserve procurement and electricity spot market | Lanour Charfeddine, Tony Klein, Thomas Walther: Oil price shocks and the macro-economy: is this time different? |
| 11:20 | Christoph Weissbart: Decarbonization of Power Markets and Fairness: An Application of Cooperative Game Theory | Andreas Tornaritis: An examination of the Institutional Hazards, Risks and Uncertainties that International Oil Companies encountered in Cyprus’s Natural Gas Industry |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 | Keynote Speech 3: Dr. Hans Bünting, innogy SE - Sector Coupling as driver for the energy transition | |
| PS5 | Electricity Price Modelling | Oil & Money |
| 13:50 | Florian Ziel: Probabilistic Mid- and Long-Term Electricity Price Forecasting: A supply and demand curves based approach | Joscha Beckmann, Robert Czudaj, Vipin Arora: The Relationship between Oil Prices and Exchange Rates: Revisiting Theory and Evidence |
| 14:30 | Wieger Hinderks: Factor models in the German electricity market: stylized facts, seasonality, and calibration | Timo Baas, Ansgar Belke: Oil price shocks, monetary policy and current account imbalances within a monetary union |
| 15:10 | Closing Remarks | |
| 15:20 | End | |
Additional Information & Download |
All concurrent session speakers will have approximately 40 minutes (including discussion - e. g. 30 min talk, 10 min discussion) to present their paper. |