PhD Summer School on “Economic Foundations for Energy and Climate Policies”

EnergyEcoLab collaborates with the PhD Summer School on “Economic Foundations for Energy and Climate Policies”. The Summer School will be held from 9th to 13th September 2019 at DIW BerlinApplication deadline is 30th April 2019.

Objectives
The main objective of the School is to provide Economics PhD students with high-level academic training on the microeconomic foundations of energy and climate policy instruments. The School is also aimed at supporting the development of a PhD-student network for students interested in the topic, and connect them with top academics in the field.

Instructors and topics
–        Carmen Arguedas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): “Monitoring and enforcement of energy and climate policies”
–        Simone Borghesi (EUI-Florence School of Regulation): “Economic Foundations and modeling of Emission Trading Systems”
–        Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Competition and market design issues in electricity markets”
–        Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg): “Behavioral economics of climate and energy policies”
–        Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin, Technical University Berlin): “The theoretical foundation of a policy mix”

Information and application instructions can be found here.

The Organizers: Carmen Arguedas, Simone Borghesi, Estelle Cantillon, Olga Chiappinelli, Michael Grubb, Karsten Neuhoff

Workshop on Developments in Energy Economics

On February 25th 2019, our team members, Natalia Fabra and Juan-Pablo Montero, will participate in Spanish Association of Energy Economics (AEEE) workshop in Madrid.

Below is the list of the presentations:

Competition among Renewables | Natalia Fabra
Fast Charging Stations: Simulating Entry and Location in a Game of Strategic Interaction | Joan-Ramon Borrell
Competing for (Fake) Certificates: The Case of Smog Checks | Juan-Pablo Montero
Exploring Energy Use in Fashion Stores: A Field Experiment | Maria L. Loureiro

The program detail can be accessed here.