Call for papers:
COMMODITY AND ENERGY MARKETS ANNUAL MEETING 2024: June 24 -25, 2024, Boston University, USA
General Information:
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Commodity and Energy Markets Association (CEMA) will be held at Boston University Questrom School of Business on June 24th-25th, 2024. This year's conference follows a long series of CEMA meetings, the first held in London in 2004 and the most recent ones in Chicago (2022) and Budapest (2023). Information about CEMA is available at cem-a.org.
Scope and Themes of the 2024 Conference:
CEMA Annual Meetings are benchmark academic conferences, gathering researchers and practitioners engaged in the application of economics, finance, mathematics, operations, and risk management to commodity and energy markets. In addition to welcoming contributions in that space, the 2024 Annual Meeting will put an emphasis on issues pertaining to climate change and sustainability as they relate to commodity and energy markets. Special sessions on Financial Engineering, on the Interface between Finance, Operations and Risk Management, on Climate Finance and Carbon Risk, and on Industry, Regulation and Markets will also be featured.
Keynote Speakers:
Helyette Geman, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
David Sinchi-Levi, School of Engineering, MIT, Cambridge
Special Sessions:
Financial Engineering: organized by Steven Kou (Boston University)
Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management (iFORM): organized by Gerry Tsoukalas (Boston University) and Andy Sun (MIT)
Climate Finance and Carbon Risk: organized by Rüdiger Kiesel (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Industry, Regulation and Practice: organized by Michel Robe (University of Richmond)
Paper Awards:
CEMA Best Paper Award (€500)
CEMA Best PhD Paper Award (€500)
ESSEC-Amundi Best ESG Paper Award (€1,500) to reward the best paper focusing on Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) concerns in the commodity space.
Publication Opportunities:
a) European Journal of Operational Research: authors of papers with a strong methodological contribution are encouraged to submit their works to the European Journal of Operational Research. The authors can place a footnote on the first page of the paper signaling that their work was presented at CEMA 2024 Annual Meeting - Boston University. Submitted papers will be screened by the conference board prior to the formal review process.
b) Journal of Banking and Finance: authors can also submit papers to the Special Issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance titled "Contemporaneous Issues in Commodity and Energy Markets". Information can be found at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-banking-and-finance/about/call-for-papers#contemporary-issues-in-commodity-and-energy-markets
General Assembly:
The 2024 CEMA General Assembly will take place during the 2024 conference
Scientific Committee:
Carol Alexander -- University of Sussex, UK
Volodymyr Babich -- Georgetown University, USA
Giovanni Barone-Adesi -- Università della Svizzera Italiana, CH
Christiane Baumeister -- University of Notre Dame, USA
Hendrik Bessembinder -- Arizona State University, USA
John Birge -- University of Chicago, USA
Derek Bunn -- London Business School, UK
Álvaro Cartea -- University of Oxford, UK
Rita D'Ecclesia -- Università La Sapienza Roma, Italy
Jérome Detemple -- Boston University, USA
Sebastian Jaimungal -- University of Toronto, Canada
Rüdiger Kiesel -- University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lutz Kilian -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, USA
László Á. Kóczy -- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Panos Kouvelis -- University of Washington in St Louis, USA
Michael Ludkovski -- University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Joëlle Miffre -- Audencia Business School, France
Selvaprabu Nadarajah -- University of Illinois Chicago
Christina Nikitopoulos -- University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Nikos Nomikos -- City University of London, UK
Craig Pirrong -- University of Houston, USA
Gabriel Power -- Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Marcel Prokopczuk -- Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
Michel A. Robe -- University of Richmond, USA
Andrea Roncoroni -- ESSEC Business School, France
Ehud Ronn -- University of Texas at Austin, USA
Geert Rouwenhorst -- Yale University, USA
Eduardo S. Schwartz -- UCLA, USA
Sridhar Seshadri -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Nicola Secomandi -- Rice University, USA
Duane Seppi -- Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Betty Simkins -- Oklahoma State University, USA
Ke Tang -- Tsinghua University, China
Sheridan Titman -- University of Texas, USA
Richard Tol -- University of Sussex, UK
Stathis Tompaidis -- University of Texas at Austin, USA
Stefan Trueck -- Macquarie University, Australia
Rafał Weron -- Wrocław University, Poland
Sjur Westgaard -- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Wei Xiong -- Princeton University, USA
Organizing Committee:
Jerome Detemple - Boston University, USA
Andrea Roncoroni - ESSEC Business School, France
Rita D'Ecclesia - Sapienza University, Italy
Local Committee:
Jerome Detemple (Chair): Boston University
Steven Kou: Boston University
Nalin Kulatilaka: Boston University
Maxime Sauzet: Boston University
Andrea Vedolin: Boston University
Fernando Zapatero: Boston University
Important Dates:
December 1, 2023: Opening of the submission procedure
February 26, 2024: Submission deadline
April 15, 2024: Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 1, 2024: Early bird registration deadline
June 24-25, 2024: CEMA Annual Meeting
Submissions:
Completed manuscripts can be submitted starting on December 1, 2023, through the conference website at https://questromworld.bu.edu/cema/
(Abstracts and extended abstracts will not be considered).
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Andrea Roncoroni
Professor of Finance
ESSEC Business School
Cergy-Pontoise
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