Center of Research for Energy and Climate Change (CRECC)
Presentation
The Center of Research for Energy and Climate Change (CREEC) serves as the focal point of research, related to energy and environmental technologies, and focuses on the development and efficient use of alternative and environment energy sources, development of energy policies.
Positioning
The CREEC focuses on the development and efficient use of alternative and environment energy sources, development of energy policies, power generation, and energy Finance.
The center places special emphasis on increasing the energy efficiency awareness and working closely with the industry. The objective is to have a leading role in using the conventional energy sources more efficiently, discovering cleaner and more sustainable energy sources, shedding light on their applications and helping their acknowledgement by the public.
Research topics :
- Finance and investment in renewable energy
- Intergenerational choices under global environmental change
- Econometrics of energy markets
- Energy and climate models
- Energy and environment
- Energy derivatives: pricing and hedging
- Financial regulation of energy and environmental markets
- Hydroelectricity & water management
- Natural resources, rusk, welfare and social preferences
- Oil and shale gas
- Poverty and environmental impacts of electricity price reforms
- Renewable and low carbon technologies policy
- Speculation and energy prices
- State regulation and energy governance
- Climate negotiations and scenarios for a +2° world
- Corporate finance analysis for energy companies
- Energy and financial market interactions
- Energy issues in developing and emerging markets
- Energy policies for low carbon transportation
- Energy prices: modeling and forecasting
Scientific Committee
- Lutz Kilian, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, USA
- Leila Dagher, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Julien Chavellier, University of Paris 8, France
- Perry Sadorsky, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Ilyes Abid, ISC Paris, France
- Dominique Guégan, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
- Benoit Sévi, Nantes University, France
- Adel Ben Youssef , University of Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Ibrahim Jamali, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Fateh BELAID, Lille Catholic University, France
- George Jabbour, George Washington University, USA
