About
The Energy Finance Christmas Workshops are a series of cozy, informal workshops devoted to the latest developments in Energy Finance. The topics include, but are not limited to:
- energy (price, load, wind and solar) forecasting,
- probabilistic forecasting and risk assessment,
- trading strategies and economic evaluation,
- pricing and hedging of commodity derivatives and derivative portfolios,
- renewables and their impact on electricity markets,
- weather derivatives,
- real option analysis for commodity investments,
- carbon pricing and emissions trading,
- LNG and freight markets.
It all started back in 2011, when I invited two of my colleagues and good friends - Stefan Trück and Sjur Westgaard - to give talks at the Science meets Social Science (S3) seminar. Stefan and Sjur promptly accepted the invitations, but later started changing dates of their stay in Wrocław. After lengthy negotiations it turned out they both wanted to come in the same week, just before Christmas! To resolve the 'crisis' I decided to invite more colleagues, organize a workshop and call it the Energy Finance Christmas Workshop. The EFC11 held on December 19th and 20th turned out to be a great success ... to the extent that Stefan concluded his talk by saying: See you all next year in Sydney for EFC12! In 2013 it was Sjur's turn to organize the Workshop, then it just started living on its own ;-)
Forthcoming workshops
- EFC24 - Sydney (Australia), 12-13.12.2024 Hosted by Stefan Trück
Past events
Energy Finance Christmas Workshops
- EFC23 - Kyoto (Japan), 4-5.12.2023 Hosted by Takashi Kanamura
- EFC20-EFC22 canceled due to COVID-19
- EFC19 - Dublin (Ireland), 12-13.12.2019 Hosted by Marianna Russo
- EFC18 - Bolzano (Italy), 12-13.12.2018 Hosted by Angelica Gianfreda
- EFC17 - Kraków (Poland), 13-15.12.2017 Hosted by Monika Papież and Sławomir Śmiech
- EFC16 - Essen (Germany), 14-16.12.2016 Hosted by Rüdiger Kiesel
- EFC15 - Paris (France), 17-18.12.2015 Hosted by Clemence Alasseur and Olivier Féron
- EFC14 - St.Gallen (Switzerland), 11-12.12.2014 Hosted by Florentina Paraschiv
- EFC13 - Oslo (Norway), 12-13.12.2013 Hosted by Ole Gjolberg, Fred Espen Benth and Sjur Westgaard
- EFC12 - Sydney (Australia), 13-14.12.2012 Hosted by Stefan Trück
- EFC11 - Wrocław (Poland), 19-20.12.2011 Hosted by Rafał Weron
Spin-offs
- ECMI SIG: Computational Methods for Finance and Energy Markets - Minisymposium M14 during ECMI2023, Wrocław (Poland), 28-30.06.2023 Hosted by Matthias Ehrhardt and Rafał Weron
- Energy Economics and Forecasting - Mini-workshop during the MEPS15 Symposium, Wrocław (Poland), 6-7.07.2015 Hosted by Rafał Weron
- Statistics in Energy - Minisymposium during the 12th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications (SMSA), Wrocław (Poland), 19-20.02.2015 Hosted by Rafał Weron ... with the help of Katarzyna Maciejowska and Jakub Nowotarski