The main theme of the conference is "Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research". The RENT Conference welcomes a broad range of topics within the field of entrepreneurship and small business research. This year we have added one more possible topic, Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research, following...

Topics: - How to Survive, Adapt & Evolve in Oil & Gas - Energy Finance and Commerce - Lifecycle Costs of Energy Technologies - LNG Markets - Community Impacts of the Energy Industry - Energy Risk & Uncertainty - Electricity Market Outlook: Supply & Demand - Midstream/Downstream Oil & Gas...

Topics: Economics of New Energy Sources; Economics of Oil and Gas (Upstream, Midstream, Downstream); Electricity and Gas Markets Regulation; Electricity and Gas Trading; Energy Efficiency; Energy Neighborhoods: Eurasian, Middle Eastern, North African, and Transatlantic Issues in Energy; Energy...

Topics: - Performance measurement and management control as it applies in various industries; - The use of different types of research methods and how they can be used more effectively; - Management control practices that can help mitigate the prevalence of corporate scandals; - The integration...

The main topic: "HEADING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS: BY EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?". The conference focuses on new developments of energy conversion technologies, energy policies and their effects on a country level as well as on a global level, the efficient use of different types of...

The aim of the workshop is twofold: first, we want to give junior researchers an opportunity to present their research project and receive feedback from senior reviewers and from the audience of the workshop. Second, we want to provide a natural prosecution to the introductory and advanced...

Recent years have seen a massive increase in the availability of large data sets. In this course we will cover some of the techniques that have been developed to analyze such data sets. Particular attention will be given to precise estimation, variable selection, and hypothesis testing. We will...

Course outline: 1. Overview of Bayesian econometrics: Bayesian theory and computations 2. Linear regressions: Gaussian and t errors, moving average errors, independence-chain Metropolis-Hastings, Griddy-Gibbs 3. Mixture models: scale mixture of normals, finite mixture of normals 4. Linear state...

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer intensive hands-on courses in general equilibrium modeling, GVAR, DSGE, fiscal and budgetary policy and macro-econometric modeling using GAMS, Matlab, dynare and Eviews. The following courses will be offered: - Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with...

Topics: - Security of the Energy Supply: At What Price? - A Growing Role for Nuclear in Asia - Energy Poverty and Energy Subsidies: How Can the Link Be Broken? - Economics of Gas Spot Trading - Renewable and Alternative Sources of Energy - Energy Policy Options in a Carbon-Constrained World -...