The 2024 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2024) is a collaborative effort by University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris School of Business, University of Southampton Business School (University of Southampton,...

Driven by the advancements in renewable energy, enhanced technology, and a burgeoning preference for eco-friendly and locally sourced power, the trajectory toward decentralized energy models seems poised to shape the future of energy systems, particularly in the realm of electricity. This shift...

The workshop’s aim is to bring together scholars from economics and politics interested in interdisciplinary work on public policy, political economy and public choice. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers by both economists and political scientists. The workshop is intended for...

China has established its role as a major world lender, and policy changes affecting its external position would therefore have pronounced effects over a range of countries and on the global financial landscape in general. In this paper, I characterize China’s external asset holdings and macro...

Inflation in most advanced economies has risen to levels unprecedented for at least two decades. Central banks around the world have started to announce rapid moves towards policy normalization and increased interest rates. This conference tries to understand the causes of the inflation...

Professors John Hassler and Per Krusell will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock'' literature, we hypothesize...

Focus: the use of high-dimensional data. Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of large and unstructured novel data sources, or the application of techniques derived from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These...

Most but not all economists view carbon pricing as most effective to combat carbon emissions, whereas other policies are widely applied and highly debated. The paper presented in this ZEW QUEST Seminar quantifies the effectiveness of climate policies in the form of pricing carbon and subsidizing...

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...