Covid-19 Pandemic And Energy Markets: Commodity Markets, Cryptocurrencies And Electricity Consumption Under The Covid-19 (World Scientific Series In Energy And Environmental Finance). This item is unavailable.Covid-19 Pandemic And Energy Markets: Commodity Markets, Cryptocurrencies And Electricity Consumption Under The Covid-19 (World Scientific Series In Energy And Environmental Finance)

The World Health Organization confirmed COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, causing vast impact on international economy. The coronavirus pandemic has given rise to an unprecedented global health and economic crises. Apart from the toll of early deaths, economic activities have been stalled and stock markets have tumbled, while a wide range of energy markets -- including oil, gas and renewable energy -- have been severely affected. This crisis The pandemic has stressed the critical value of the health care infrastructure and electricity infrastructure. In view of the above, while governments and policy makers respond to these interlinked crises, they must not lose sight of a major challenge of our time: clean energy transitions.The pandemic has continued to to slow down the recovery of economic activities and consumption due to combination of many factors such as economic recession, expensive storage, warm climate, and enormous uncertainty. Mitigation and adaptation policies are crucial to overcoming the crisis. The commodity futures market will depend on the effectiveness of decision-makers' policies in containing the COVID-19 outbreak and reducing the negative effect of the pandemic on economic activities. This book seeks to throw light on the adverse effects of COVID-19 through enhanced scientific and multi-disciplinary knowledge. The chapters in the book show that the energy, stock, crypto-currencies markets are vulnerable to the surge in coronavirus deaths.

<p> </p> <p><strong>DR Khaled Guesmi</strong> is a director, Center of Research for Energy and Climate Change Change (CRECC) & Director of Research Department, Economics, Energy & Policy at Paris School of Business. He's also adjunct professor at Telfer School of Management, University of Canada. He undertakes research and lectures on empirical finance, applied time-series econometrics, and commodity markets. Dr Guesmi obtains his HDR (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) in in July 2015. He holds his PhD in Economics from the University Paris Nanterre in 2011, and his MSc in Finance from Paris I University of Sorbonne in 2005. Previously, he served as Professor of Finance and Head of Environment, Climate Change and Energy Transition Chair at IPAG Business School, as associate research positions at ""EconomiX"" laboratory at the University of Paris Ouest La Défense and ""ERF"" Economic Research Forum, Egypt. In 2003 Dr Guesmi joined the UNESCO as a Research Manager, and in 2008, he joined ""Caisse de Dépôts et Consignations"" as Financial Analyst.</p> <p>Dr Guesmi is the co-author of many books as <em>Cryptofinance and Mechanism of Exchange</em> (Springer), He has published articles in leading refereed journals. Furthermore, Dr Guesmi currently serves as Associate Editor at <em>Finance Research Letters</em>, as international advisory board at <em>The International Spectator</em>. In addition, Khaled Guesmi is the founder of the <em>International Symposium on Energy and Finance Issues</em> and the Project Manager of European Commission's Horizon 2020 Program for Research and Innovation. This program has focused on new models of cooperation between EU and the south-eastern Mediterranean region which are expected to promote a radical re-design of these countries' energy strategies, focusing on sustainability and efficiency policies. Cooperation, for instance, could be applied to various aspects of the energy sector, including development of renewables, energy efficiency technologies and demand-side policies. Sustainability and efficiency are certainly the domains where the EU support for these countries could bring added value.</p> <p>Dr Khaled Guesmi applies modern financial econometrics tools to examine a broad set of topics related to the commodities markets. His research includes topics, such as Finanlization of commodities and contagion effect between stock markets and energy markets. Dr Khaled Guesmi hold the 4th best world researcher in Energy Finance: Frontiers and Future Development in Beijing in 2018.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>