Topics
Representative Markets
- Energy (electricity, renewables, natural gas, oil, and refined products)
- Agriculture (grains, oilseeds, livestock, dairy, softs)
- Metals (base, ferrous, specialist non-ferrous, precious, and rare)
- Commoditized services (CO2 allowances and freight shipping)
- Weather-linked securities
- Currencies and cryptocurrencies
Representative Areas
- Asset pricing
- Asset management and portfolio allocation
- Stranded assets
- Financialization of commodities
- ESG strategies for commodity pools and index traders
- Regulation (EMIR, REMIT, MIFID, Dodd-Frank)
- Risk measurement and management
- Trading and hedging strategies
- Contract securitization and derivative structuring
- Corporate finance of producers and end consumers
- Long-term investment financing
- Macro market analysis and market microstructure
- Market analysis
- Econometric analysis and statistics
- Quantitative financial modeling
- Operations management and operations research
- Logistics
- Supply chains
- Real options and physical asset valuation
ESG Focus
The organizers especially welcome papers on the nexus between commodities and ESG concerns (Environment, Social, Governance).