SEMINARS
Past and forthcoming seminars by the project team members:
- “The Economics of the Energy Transition” presented by Natalia Fabra. September 2025. IDEA Inaugural Conference. (Slides)
- “Unpacking the Distributional Effects of the Energy Crisis: Lessons from the Iberian Electricity Market” presented by Natalia Fabra (December 2023) at Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (Slides, Video); presented by Natalia Fabra (September 2025) at Geneva Graduate Institute. (Slides)
- “Robust Risk-Sharing Contracts” presented by Clément Leblanc. May 2025 (Upcoming). IO MadBar Workshop – CEMFI.
- “The Costs of Counterparty Risk in Long-Term Contracts” presented by Natalia Fabra at Northwestern University (April 2025), University of Chicago – Institute for Climate (April 2025), European University Institute (January 2025) (Slides), Upcoming: Workshop on the Economics of Climate Change – University of Navarra (May 2025), Climate Finance Conference – Universidad Pontificia Comillas (May 2025).
- “Designing Electricity Markets and Contracts” presented by Natalia Fabra. January 2025. DG COMP, European Commission (Slides)
- “Dukovany II: A clear example of how well designed State Aid can lever good policy” presented by Natalia Fabra. November 2024. ACE Conference. (Slides)
- “Phasing in Renewables, Phasing Out Coal: The Local Labor Market Effect” presented by Natalia Fabra. November 2024. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. (Slides, Video)
- “Electricity Market Design in Transition” presented by Natalia Fabra. August 2024. EARIE Conference, Presidential Address. (Slides)
- “Renewables and Electricity Spot Prices: An incentive-risk trade-off for contract design” presented by Clément Leblanc. May 2024. Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment. (Slides)
- “Market Design in the European Electricity Market: Fit for the Future?” presented by Natalia Fabra. May 2024, NHH-BECCLE Seminar. (Slides)
- “Challenges for Renewable Energy Investments” presented by Natalia Fabra. November 2023, Yale Climate, Environment and Economic Growth Conference (Slides)
- “Renewable Energies and Storage: Friends or Foes?” presented by Natalia Fabra. September 2023, JRC Ispra seminar (Slides)
- “Decarbonizing Power: Challenges for expanding renewable energies” presented by Natalia Fabra. August 2021, EEA-ESEM Conference (Slides)
- “Energy Efficiency Can Deliver for Climate Policy: Evidence from Machine Learning-Based Targeting” presented by Mateus Souza. June 2023. 28th EAERE Annual Conference. (Slides)
- “Reforming European Electricity Markets”presented by Natalia Fabra. June 2023. BECCLE Conference. (Slides)
- “Socio-Economic Aspects of Energy Storage” presented by Natalia Fabra. November 2022. ERC-EIC Energy Storage Workshop. (Slides)
- “Guidelines on State Aid for Climate, Environmental Protection, and Energy” presented by Natalia Fabra. November 2022. ACE Conference. (Slides)
- “Electricity Markets in Transition” presented by Natalia Fabra. November 2022. Meeting with the European Central Bank Governing Council. (Slides)
- “The Energy Crisis: Emergency Interventions and Structural Reform” presented by Natalia Fabra. September 2022. Meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (Slides)
- “Electricity Market Interventions and Market Design” presented by Natalia Fabra. October 2022. Meeting with the World Bank. (Slides)
- “Electricity Market Reforms: Short and Long Term Options” presented by Natalia. Fabra. October 2022. OECD Workshop. (Slides)
- “Do renewables create local jobs?” presented by Natalia Fabra, June 2022. OECD Expert Workshop on Environmental Policies, Social and Economic Outcomes. (Slides)
- “Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Real-Time Pricing for Electricity” presented by Natalia Fabra, June 2022, Toulouse. 13th Conference on the Economics of Energy and Climate (Keynote lecture). (Slides) (Video); presented by Natalia Fabra, June 2022, The Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics (Keynote Lecture) (Video)
- “The energy transition: a challenge for industrial economics”, presented by Natalia Fabra, January 2022, Paris Energy Economics Seminar (Virtual). (slides)
- “La cuestión eléctrica”, presented by Natalia Fabra, September 2021, Workshop Banco de España, Universidad de Vigo. (Slides).
- “Energy Tax Exemptions and Industrial Production“, presented by Stefan Lamp, September 2021, VfS Annual Conference 2021: Climate Economics. (Slides).
- “The implicit cost of carbon abatement during the COVID-19 pandemic”, presented by Mateus Souza at EAERE Conference 2021, Summer Workshop on “Empirical Methods in Energy Economics” 2021, and EEA-ESEM Virtual 2021. (Slides)
- “Storing Power: Market Structure Matters”, presented by David Andrés at 9th Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment, 2021 Virtual Meeting of the International Industrial Organization Conference, CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2021 and Energy Workshop (TSE-Carlos III, Madrid). (Slides)
- “Retos de la Transición Energética”, presented by Natalia Fabra, May 2021, Mujeres en Economía (Slides).
- “What are the opportunities and challenges of energy storage?“, presented by Natalia Fabra, April 2021 , SITE Stockholm University, Monash University (Slides)
- “The Spanish Economy, the Power Sector and the Pandemic“, presented by Natalia Fabra, Bank of Spain, March 2021 (Slides)
- “The Green Deal and Competition Policy“, presented by Natalia Fabra at IX International Academic Symposium, Barcelona (slides)
- “Machine Learning Can Improve Benefit-Cost Analyses of Energy Efficiency Retrofits” presented by Mateus Souza at UC3M (Applied Economics Reading Group) (slides).
- “Predictive Counterfactuals for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Event Studies with Staggered Adoption“, presented by Mateus Souza at Universidade Católica de Brasília. (slides).
- “Clean Energy Access: Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply“, presented by Imelda at Paris School of Economics (October 2020), Université Paris-Dauphine (October 2020), Universidad de Navarra (October 2020), EAERE-FEEM Summer School, NEUDC, University of Luxemburg. (slides)
- “Auctioning Renewables” Keynote Lecture by Natalia Fabra at the SURED Annual Conferece (slides)
- “Technology-Neutral vs Technology-Specific Procurement”, presented by Natalia Fabra at University of Zurich (November 2021, slides), ZEW (University of Mannheim, January 2021), University of Montpellier, TILEC (Tilburg University) , EconPol Annual Conference (slides), SITE (Stockholm School of Economics), Paris School of Economics, Virtual Market Design (video), UC Davis, ARENA. Presented by Juan Pablo Montero at 2020 RIDGE Virtual Forum (Workshop on Environmental Economics), and Centro UC Cambio Global (Slides).
- “Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewables Regulation“, presented at NYU, Cambridge University, PUC Chile, CREST (Paris), SciencePo (Paris), Dauphine (Paris), Imperial College (London), CEPR VIOS, Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) (slides)
- “Auctions with unknown capacities: understanding competition among renewables“, presented by Natalia Fabra at ETH (Zurich, Nov. 2018), Simposio de Análisis Económico (Madrid, Dec 2018), University of Toulouse, Energy Economics (Madrid), Isaac Newton, Institute (Cambridge), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, PUC (Santiago de Chile), Ecares (Brussels), the University of Mannheim, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Toulouse Conference on Energy Economics, IESE, Florence School of Regulation, Boconni University, University of Vienna (slides)
- “Real Time Pricing for Everyone”, presented by Mar Reguant at ASSA Meetings, London School of Economics, EPIC (University of Chicago).
- “Variable Pricing and the Cost of Renewable Energy“, presented by Imelda at ZEW (Mannheim), International Energy Agency. (slides)
- “Cooking That Kills: Cleaner Energy Access, Indoor Air Pollution, and Health“, presented by Imelda at Royal Economic Society, UC3M (october 2018) (slides)
- “The Energy Transition: Markets and Policies“. Keynote lecture by Natalia Fabra at the AEEE Annual conference (slides).
COURSES
Course on Energy Economics @CEMFI
Drawing on the analytical tools of industrial organization and applied microeconomics, this course examines key issues in energy markets and related environmental markets. Topics include the functioning and performance of electricity markets; the effects of emissions regulations on market dynamics; environmental externalities associated with energy production and consumption; market power and antitrust enforcement in energy markets; investment incentives in generation capacity and energy efficiency; and the design and impact of policies promoting renewables, storage technologies, and demand-side responses, among others. We will engage with both foundational theoretical and empirical research, as well as recent contributions at the frontier of the field. Students are encouraged to explore emerging questions and develop original research ideas within this evolving policy debate.
Syllabus of the course can be found here.
Topics covered:
- Introduction and Overview of Energy Markets in Practice
- Competition in Wholesale Electricity Markets: Theory and Evidence
- Forwards and Long-Term Contracts
- The Economics of Renewable Energies: Market Impacts and Policies
- Capacity Investments and Security of Supply
- Energy Storage and Transmission
- Analyzing Pollution Permits and Taxes
- Energy Efficiency and Behavioral Biases
- Retail Markets: Competition and Pricing
- Distributional and Socio-Economic Effects of Energy and Climate Policies
Lectures by Natalia Fabra on Designing Electricity Markets (ECORES Lecture Series, January 2025)
The class material and event details can be found here.
Lectures by Natalia Fabra on Competition and Market Design in Electricity Markets (DIW Berlin Summer School, September 2019, event link)
The class material can be found here.
