Jack Byrne Professor in Decision Science, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Commodity and Energy Markets Association Annual Meeting 2025
The CEMA Annual Meeting 2025 follows an established series of CEMA Annual Meetings. The CEMA Annual Meeting is a benchmark academic conference, gathering researchers and practitioners engaged in the study or application of economics, finance, mathematics, operations, and risk management in commodity and energy markets.
CEMA 2025 will continue to welcome contributions in all the areas of commodity and energy markets, but its theme will be the ongoing clean energy transition, emphasizing issues pertaining to climate change and sustainability as they relate to commodity and energy markets. Information about CEMA, including prior meetings, is available at cem-a.org.
CEMA Annual Meeting
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Commodity and Energy Markets Association (CEMA) will be held on June 16-17, 2025 at Rice University in Houston, TX.
ONLY FULL-LENGTH PAPERS WILL BE CONSIDERED (PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ABSTRACTS OR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS).
Important Dates
December 1, 2024: Start of the submission period
February 28, 2025: End of the submission period
April 15, 2025: Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 15, 2025: Early bird registration deadline
Keynote Speakers
Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Panel on Academic Initiatives on the Clean Energy Transition
Snow Family Business Professor in Decision Sciences
Faculty Director for the Center for Energy, Development and Global Environment (EDGE), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Faculty Director for the Center for Energy, Development and Global Environment (EDGE), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Professor of Business Administration, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies, University of Mannheim
The William R. Timken Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
The William R. Timken Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Sponsors
Committees
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- Owen Amadin
- Barbara Bennett
- Thomas Doser
- Nicola Secomandi
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- Nicola Secomandi
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- Michel Robe (University of Richmond)
- Andrea Roncoroni (ESSEC)
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CEMA 2025 Scientific Committee
- Senay Agca, George Washington University, USA
- Carol Alexander, University of Sussex, UK
- Volodymyr Babich, Georgetown University, USA
- Kerry Back, Rice University, USA
- Hendrik Bessembinder, Arizona State University, USA
- John Birge, University of Chicago, USA
- Derek Bunn, London Business School, UK
- Bahattin Büyükşahin, Bilkent University, Turkey
- Álvaro Cartea, University of Oxford, UK
- Rita D'ecclesia, Università La Sapienza Roma, Italy
- Jérome Detemple, Boston University, USA
- Julieta Frank, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Bart Frijns, Open Universiteit, Netherlands
- Peter Hartley, Rice University, USA
- Olga Isengildina-Massa, Virginia Tech
- Kris Jacobs, University of Houston, USA
- Sebastian Jaimungal, University of Toronto, Canada
- Takashi Kanamura, Kyoto University, Japan
- Rüdiger Kiesel, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Lutz Kilian, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, USA
- Andrei Kirilenko, Oxford University, UK
- Panos Kouvelis, Washington University - St Louis, USA
- Praveen Kumar, University of Houston, USA
- Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University, USA
- Delphine Lautier, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
- Bingxin Li, West Virginia University, USA
- Ted Loch-Temzelides, Rice University, USA
- Michael Ludkovski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- Kenneth Medlock, Baker Institute, Rice University, USA
- Nicolas Merener, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
- Joëlle Miffre, Audencia Business School, France
- Scott Mixon, U.S. Commodity Futures Commission, USA
- Selvaprabu Nadarajah, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Christina Nikitopoulos, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Nikos Nomikos, City University of London, UK
- Esen Onur, U.S. Commodity Futures Commission, USA
- Barbara Ostdiek, Rice University, USA
- Evgenia Passari, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
- Joost Pennings, University of Maastricht & Wageningen Universiteit, Netherlands
- Craig Pirrong, University of Houston, USA
- Gabriel Power, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
- Marcel Prokopczuk, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Vikas Raman, University of Lancaster, UK
- Michel A. Robe, University of Richmond, USA (Chair)
- Andrea Roncoroni, ESSEC Business School, France
- Ehud Ronn, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Geert Rouwenhorst, Yale University, USA
- Eduardo S. Schwartz, UCLA, USA
- Sridhar Seshadri, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Nicola Secomandi, Rice University, USA
- Duane Seppi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Teresa Serra-Devesa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Betty Simkins, Oklahoma State University, USA
- Marta Szymanowska, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
- Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Kumar Venkataraman, Southern Methodist University, USA
- Rafał Weron, Wrocław University, Poland
- Sumudu Watugala, Indiana University, USA
- Sjur Westgaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Wei Xiong, Princeton University, USA
- Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma, USA
Awards
The Commodity and Energy Markets Association (CEMA) confers three awards selected from the papers presented at its annual conference.
Papers presented at the CEMA 2025 conference will be considered for the following awards:
- CEMA Best Paper Award
- CEMA Best PhD Paper Award
- ESSEC-Amundi Best ESG Paper Award
The CEMA 2025 awards will be announced at the CEMA General Assembly be held at the CEMA Annual Meeting on Tuesday June 17, 2025.
Awards Eligibility
- The presenting author of candidate papers must be a CEMA member as of May 15, 2025.
- Candidate papers for the Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award must be presented by a Ph.D. student, who must be a Ph.D. student when the paper is submitted to the conference.
- A paper can be considered as a candidate for only one of the two awards.
Special Issue
The Journal of Commodity Markets plans to publish a special issue on the theme of CEMA 2025 (Coming Soon)
Hotel and Travel Information
A room block from June 15-18,2025 is available at each of the following hotels:
Hotel ZaZa Houston Museum District
5701 Main St
Houston, TX 77005
713-526-1991
$189 per night, plus taxes and fees (until May 16, 2025)
Book now (block code RIC615)
InterContinental Houston
6750 Main St
Houston, TX 77030
713-422-2779
$179 per night, plus taxes and fees (until May 16, 2025)
Book now
Houston Marriott Medical Center/Museum District
6580 Fannin St
Houston, TX 77030
713-796-0080
$179 per night, plus taxes and fees (until May 16, 2025)
Book now (block code: RUBRUBA)
If you have any questions related to registration and travel, please contact Thomas Doser at thomas.doser@rice.edu.