Applications in Energy Finance The Energy Sector, Economic Activity, Financial Markets and the Environment

This textbook investigates the linkages between energy-commodities markets, financial markets and the economy and incorporates different aspects of the energy market, organizing the relevant material in two distinct parts. 

Chapter 1. Review of the Development of Energy Finance.- Chapter 2. What Do We Know About the Oil Price-Exchange Rate Link? - The Role of Time-Variation and Supply/Demand Dynamics.- Chapter 3. Crude Oil Prices, Exchange Rates, Stock Markets and Industrial Production Relationships in Emerging Markets.- Chapter 4. How Do Energy Market Shocks Affect Economic Activity in the Us Under Changing Financial Conditions?- Chapter 5. Tracing the Sources of Contagion in the Oil-Finance Nexus.- Chapter 6. Volatility Contagion between Crude Oil and G7 Stock Markets in the Light of Trade Wars and COVID-19: An Application Based on the TVP-VAR Extended Joint Connectedness Approach.- Chapter 7. The Impact of Market Uncertainty on the Systematic Risk of Clean Energy Stocks.- Chapter 8. Climate Finance.- Chapter 9. Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), Connectedness Dynamics and Portfolio Effectiveness: The Case for Green Bonds.- Chapter 10. Are Policy Stances Consistent With the Global Ghg Emission Persistence?

Christos Floros is a Professor of Finance and Vice Rector of Research at the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece. His main research interests include behavioural finance, financial derivatives, financial economics/econometrics and empirical banking. He has published in academic journals such as the European Journal of Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, Annals of Operations Research, Urban Studies, Manchester School, Journal of Policy Modeling, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Accounting and Finance, Applied Financial Economics, Economic Modelling, Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Global Finance Journal, Managerial Finance, Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds, among others. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives (IJFMD) and Editor of the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics (IJCEE). He has been a Guest Editor for special issues, while he has been involved in a number of research funded projects. Christos has presented several papers at international academic conferences, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and has successfully supervised several PhD students and post-doc researchers. His recent books with Palgrave Macmillan are Modelling and Forecasting High Frequency Financial Data (with S. Degiannakis; 2015), and The Greek Debt Crisis (with I. Chatziantoniou, 2017).