- Docente: Niko Samuli Jaakkola
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Greening Energy Market and Finance (cod. 5885)
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from Nov 07, 2022 to Dec 16, 2022
Learning outcomes
The module will offer students an interdisciplinary perspective on climate-related economic and financial risks and on the appropriate societal responses to mitigate them. At the end of the course students will have developed a solid knowledge of the academic literature and policy debate on how climate change and the decarbonization process might affect economic activity, and vice versa.
Course contents
The course is the second module of the integrated course ‘Climate-related risks and commodity markets’, which will take place in the second semester (period P), from 7.11.2022 to 9.12.2022. Please see here for information on the first module.
The module will provide an overview on interactions between commodity and energy markets and climate policy, with an interdisciplinary but primarily economic perspective. Markets covered will include some / all of: fossil resources (coal, oil, gas); electricity; emission permit markets.
In particular, the module will cover the following topics:
- The economics of natural gas and oil: scarcity, market power, politics.
- The economics of coal: cost, international trade.
- Electricity trading: a pan-European perspective.
- Emission permit markets.
- Climate policy and climate politics, in relation to all of the above.
Readings/Bibliography
Most of the readings will be in the form of academic articles, to be posted on Virtuale during the course. There is no specific, single textbook for this module.
Teaching methods
The course will be a combination of frontal lectures and in-class exercises.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be based on the final written exam (50%), a take-home essay (30%) and two pieces of assessed coursework (10% each, for 20% total).
The exam will last 90 minutes and will include a written question (short essay or short answers) on commodity market facts, and a mathematical problem. Students can decide to reject the grade obtained at the exam only once.
Grading is as follows:
- <18 fail
- 18-23 pass
- 24-27 good
- 28-30 very good
- 30L excellent
Teaching tools
All the course material (slides, readings etc.) will be made available on Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Niko Samuli Jaakkola