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Energy Economics & Market Analysis Center

Analyzes energy markets, resource valuation, and the economic feasibility of geoenergy projects, conducting cost-benefit analysis, market modeling, and economic optimization for exploration, production, and transition investments.

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Research Fields 17

Capital Budgeting & Investment Appraisal

🧮 Capital Budgeting & Investment Appraisal

Capital budgeting is the procedure by which an organisation decides which long-lived inves…

Interest Theory & Time Value of Money

⏳ Interest Theory & Time Value of Money

Interest theory explains why a rupee today trades for more than a rupee tomorrow, and what…

Origins of Exhaustible Resource Depletion Theory

⛏️ Origins of Exhaustible Resource Depletion Theory

Depletion theory analyses how a stock that cannot renew itself — an ore body, a coal seam,…

Growth Theory with Exhaustible Resources & Sustainability Rules

♻️ Growth Theory with Exhaustible Resources & Sustainability Rules

Growth theory with exhaustible resources asks whether an economy that draws down a finite …

🛢️ Petroleum Economics & Oil Market Structure

Petroleum economics studies how oil is found, produced, traded and priced: the economics o…

Peak-Load Pricing & Levelized Cost of Electricity

⚡ Peak-Load Pricing & Levelized Cost of Electricity

Peak-load pricing is the application of marginal-cost pricing to industries whose demand v…

🌫️ Risk, Uncertainty & Investment Decision-Making

This field studies economic decisions when outcomes are not known, distinguishing two regi…

Input-Output Analysis of Energy Systems

🕸️ Input-Output Analysis of Energy Systems

Input-output analysis is an accounting and modelling framework that represents an economy …

Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of Energy Markets

⚙️ Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of Energy Markets

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling simulates an entire economy — households, i…

Externalities & the Economics of Carbon Pricing

🌡️ Externalities & the Economics of Carbon Pricing

Externaity economics studies costs and benefits that market prices fail to carry: damage t…

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Public Energy Projects

📐 Cost-Benefit Analysis of Public Energy Projects

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic appraisal of public projects and policies by…

Public Utility Regulation & Energy Market Deregulation

🚦 Public Utility Regulation & Energy Market Deregulation

Utility regulation studies how government should control the prices, investment and servic…

Ecological Economics & Entropy of Resource Use

🔥 Ecological Economics & Entropy of Resource Use

Ecological economics treats the economy as a subsystem of the biosphere, open to flows of …

🔐 Uncertainty, Information & Real Options in Energy Investment

This field studies investment and preservation decisions whose consequences are partly irr…

Econometric Forecasting of Energy Demand

📉 Econometric Forecasting of Energy Demand

Econometric forecasting of energy demand constructs statistical models that relate consump…

Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Energy Risk Analysis

🎲 Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Energy Risk Analysis

Monte Carlo methods estimate the behaviour of complex systems by driving them with random …

Commodity Futures Markets & Energy Price Hedging

📊 Commodity Futures Markets & Energy Price Hedging

Commodity futures analysis studies the markets in which promises of future delivery are tr…