Research Workshop on Industrial Organization: Energy and Climate Economics

This research workshop will be the fifteenth of the series of quarterly workshops organized by the Public-Private Sector Research Center. The aim of these workshops is to bring together researchers who are in the Barcelona area and also researchers outside Barcelona. For this edition we have selected papers dealing with different aspects of energy and climate economics. Topics to be discussed include: climate change policy; market power in electricity markets; the impact of wind generation on electricity spot markets; forward contracting in gas markets; and the evolution of energy policies in the European and Spanish energy markets. The 5^th Report of the Public-Private Sector Research Center (The Spanish Gas and Electricity Sector: Markets, Regulation and Environmental Policies) will be presented as part of this workshop.
  

Albert Banal-Estanol
Research Fellow, Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Business School
Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Giulio Federico
Policy Research Fellow, Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Business School

Prof. Xavier Vives
Professor of Economics and Financial Management, IESE Business School
Academic Director, Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Business School

The Public-Private Sector Research Center was created in October of 2001. Its mission is to foster cooperation between the private sector and public administrations, as well as the exchange of ideas and initiatives, through dialogue, research and education.

The Center is sponsored by the following organizations: Accenture, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Empresa i Ocupació de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Diputació de Barcelona, Endesa, FOBSIC, Fundació AGBAR, Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals,  Mediapro, Sanofi-Aventis and ATM, FGC and TMB.