Mini-Tracks

Mini Track Chair:

  • Stefan LESSMANN, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  • Roxana CLODNITCHI, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Energy finance highlights the interdependency of energy and financial markets. While the traditional viewpoint of energy markets being a source of shocks in financial markets remains valid, the increasing financialization of energy products renders the linkage between those markets far more complex. Understanding these relationships and answering the crucial question of how to fuel world economies’ hunger for energy while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions requires a new family of tools that turn the vast amounts of data in the energy finance ecosystem into insights for decision-making and ultimately enhance the efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of energy operations and their financing. The initiative AI for Energy Finance (AI4EFin) speaks to these challenges. Within the session and the like-named Research Project, we are exploring novel machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) instruments for pattern extraction, explanation, and forecasting of the high-dimensional, nonstationary, temporal data encountered in energy finance.
Beyond their merit for risk management, the research findings should also guide policymakers in devising/revising regulatory programs and other market interventions, and facilitate estimating the effectiveness of these interventions.

The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:

  • Energy Finance

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Explainable deep neural networks

  • Machine Learning

  • Risk management

Stefan LESSMANN completed his PhD and habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He then joined the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014, where he heads the Chair of Information Systems. He serves as an associate editor for DSS, IJF, and other international journals and department editor of BISE. Stefan has secured substantial amounts of research funding and published several papers in leading international (EJOR, DSS, TSE, etc.) and conferences (ICML, ICIS, ECOS, etc. His research concerns machine learning and artificial intelligence (MLAI) methodologies and their use cases in managerial decision support. Stefan specializes on MLAI applications in the broad scope of marketing and risk analytics. Stefan actively participates in knowledge transfer and consulting projects with industry partners; from start-up companies to global players and not-for-profit organizations.

Roxana CLODNITCHI is a University Lecturer and Vice-Dan for Research and International Relations of the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages, within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She holds a PhD in Business Administration and has more than 10 years of experience in International Project Management, Communication and Business Consulting with the European Commission and the German Chamber of Commerce in Romania. Within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Dr. Clodnitchi was active for years as a guest lecturer in Decision Theory, Strategies and Entrepreneurship with focus on Energy Economics and also as a Business Relations Officer.

Publication Opportunities:

The conference is organized by Society for Business Excellence and Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages on the 20-22 of March 2025 at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ) in partnership with the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Economics (EAM), the Faculty of International Economic Relations (REI), the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics (CSIE), the Faculty of Finance and Banking (FABBV), the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Economics (ETA), the Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems (CIG).

The papers accepted at ICBE 2025 will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration, payment, and presentation. The papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings volume under the German Publishing House De Gruyter and they will be indexed in EBSCO, Proquest, ExLibris, OCLC, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, CELDES, CNPIE, Naviga, and will be submitted to Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (WOS) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/picbe/picbe-overview.xml)

The last 8 editions of the Proceedings of the ICBE volumes have been indexed in ISI Web of Science.

Submitted papers will be also considered for publishing under Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, series indexed by Scopus. Here you can access the edition published following ICBE 2024: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031781780

Additionally, three papers, selected based on the review process, will be published in the international journal Management & Marketing, indexed in Web of Science- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Proquest, Cabell’s Directory and more than 20 other international databases (https://sciendo.com/journal/MMCKS).

Submitted papers will also be considered for publication in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). JRFM is ranked B in the 2022 ABDC Journal Quality List and indexed by a number of databases, including Scopus (CiteScore 4.5; CiteScore category rank Q1), EconBiz/ECONIS, EconLit, EconPapers (RePEc), etc. JRFM is now #8 on the list based on the citation index (H5) for finance. In addition, two best paper awards (200 CHF each) will be published in the conference’s special issue “Leading Change in Disruptive Financial Times“. (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jrfm/special_issues/YWP8Z55UKH)

Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN: 2559-1347). JFS has been published by the Institute of Financial Studies since 2016. In its pages, works by professional practitioners, but also by authors from the scientific and university world in the country and abroad, as well as young researchers, will be published, concerning issues in the financial field such as: insurance-reinsurance, capital market, private pensions but also in other fields such as the academic field, the business field etc. The journal is indexed in DOAJ, RePEc, CEEOL, ERIHPLUS and Google Scholar (https://revista.isfin.ro/en/).

All papers submitted to ICBE 2025 will undergo a thorough review for plagiarism and the use of Generative AI tools.

 

 

Submission Details

Submission of full paper due for review February 28th 2025
Notification of paper acceptance (incl. requests for changes) March 1st 2025
Final paper due (with changes implemented) March 10th 2025
Final Author registration date March 10th 2025

Registration and payment*

EARLY BIRD – by December 1st 2024
Academics 250 euro 1250 lei
Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) 200 euro 1000 lei
REGULAR – by February 1st 2025
Academics 350 euro 1750 lei
Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) 250 euro 1250 lei

 

LATE – by March 15th 2025    
Academics 450 euro 2250 lei
Student (Ph.D. or Post-doc) 350 euro 1750 lei
  • SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER = 200 euro / 1000 lei
  • The conference fee includes one conference attendance, publication, conference folder and acces to the online events during the conference.

Please be aware that a late payment involves the possibility not to be present in the printed version of the materials (agenda, booklet).

Do you have any questions?

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