June 2023

On June 15, 2023, the School of Economics & Business of Universidad Navarra organized a one-day workshop, at Fundación Ramón Areces, on “Current Issues in Energy & Environmental Economics”.

Natalia Fabra presented her paper “Do Renewables Create Local Jobs?” (joint with A. Lacuesta, E. Gutierrez, and R. Ramos). The other invited talks were given by David Rapson (UC Davis & Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)  on “Global Transportation Decarbonization”, Jing Li (MIT) on “Entry and Coordination in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Charging Industry” and Raúl Bajo-Buenestado (U Navarra) on “Market Competition and the Adoption of Clean Technology”.

Check the video of the event here.

EnergyEcoLab has become an associate member of the OS-Climate Community, a collaborative network focused on climate-related research initiatives.

OS-Climate is a Linux foundation project actively engaged in advancing climate risk assessment, developing innovative methodologies, and fostering knowledge exchange among its members.

The paper “Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation” (Natalia Fabra and Imelda, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming) has been the winner of the 2nd Edition of MIBEL Prize.

Read the paper here.

Press release (in spanish) here.

Acceptance speech (in spanish) here.

Natalia Fabra has given a keynote lecture entitled “Reforming European Electricity Markets” at the BECCLE Conference on competition policy, organized by the Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE). The conference combines sessions with invited speakers and contributed sessions with presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and competition economics.

The conference programme is available here.

The slides of Natalia’s presentation are available here.