Curriculum Vitae Benoît Sévi Assistant Professor of Economics Aix-Marseille Université (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS & EHESS GREQAM Château La Farge Route des Milles 13290 Les Milles Aix-en-Provence Email address: benoit.sevi@gmail Personal homepage: sites.google.com/site/benoitsevi and SSRN Author Page RESEARCH FIELDS Energy Markets, Emission Markets Empirical Finance, High Frequency Financial Econometrics Microeconomics of Risk and Uncertainty ACADEMIC POSITION since May 2013 Associate Editor of Research in International Business and Finance (Elsevier) since September 2010 Assistant Professor of Economics at Université Aix-Marseille Researcher Aix-Marseille School of Economics (GREQAM) DEFI Department since September 2009 Permanent Visiting Researcher at London Business School (MSO Department) since September 2006 Research Associate with CREDEN (University of Montpellier I) 2009 2010 Visiting Researcher at London Business School Energy Markets Group in the MSO Department (D.W. Bunn) 2006 2010 Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Angers Lecturer in Finance at École Centrale de Nantes Research Associate with LEMNA (University of Nantes) 2005 2006 Teaching Assistant in Economics University of Perpignan April May 2004 Visiting Doctoral Student at HEC Montréal 2001 2005 Teaching Assistant in Economics University of Montpellier I EDUCATION 2005 Doctorate in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Université Montpellier I (UMI) Dissertation: Forward and derivatives markets From competition to oligopoly with application to the European electricity markets (Adv.: Jacques Percebois) 2001 One year degree required before doctoral studies in Public Decision, Magna Cum Laude, UMI 2000 One year post-graduate degree in Energy Economics, Cum Laude, UMI 1999 MA in Econometrics, Magna Cum Laude, Université de Caen 1992 1994 Intensive undergraduate studies in Mathematics Updated: December 21, 2013 1/6
GRANTS 2010 Research Grant from the French Energy Council, Paris, for EU ETS Option market, information and efficiency (joint with 6 other researchers) 2009 Research Grant from the University of Angers for visiting London Business School ARIANE mobility programmes 2009 Research Grant from University of Paris X Nanterre (EconomiX) for High frequency time series modelling (joint work with Julien Chevallier and Florian Ielpo) 2009 Research Grant from Europlace Finance Institute, Paris, for Carbon Finance (joint work with Émilie Alberola and Julien Chevallier) 2008 Research Grant from the French Energy Council, Paris, for Citizen participation in emission permits markets (joint work with Dorian Litvine and Olivier Rousse) 2007 Research Grant from the French Energy Council, Paris, for Vulnerability about energy resource supply in Europe (joint work with Agnès d Artigues and Jacques Percebois) 2001 2004 Fellowship of French Ministry of Education for doctoral studies PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES January June 2006 June 2005 May August 2000 Consultant for Gaz de France Négoce (joint work with F. Mirabel and J. Percebois) Research issue: the future of long-term gas contracts in Europe Work experience at EDF Trading Ltd., London Work experience at EDF Grands Clients Méditerranée, Marseille PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 1. Forecasting the volatility of crude oil futures using intraday data, 2013, European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming. 2. A fear index to predict oil futures returns (with J. Chevallier), 2013, Energy Studies Review, forthcoming. 3. On the stochastic properties of carbon futures prices (with J. Chevallier), 2013, Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming. 4. The explanatory power of signed jumps for the risk-return tradeoff (with C. Baena), 2013, Economics Bulletin 33, 1029-1046. 5. Decreasing R&D expenditures in the European energy industry and deregulation (with O. Grosse), 2013, Journal of Energy and Development, forthcoming. 6. An empirical analysis of the downside risk-return trade-off at daily frequency, 2013, Economic Modelling 31, 189-197. 7. Citizen s participation in permit markets and social welfare under uncertainty (with O. Rousse), 2013, Environmental Science & Policy 27, 215-222. 8. Funds from non-renewable energy resources: Policy lessons from Alaska and Alberta (with C. Baena and A. Warrack), 2012, Energy Policy 51, 569-577. 9. Empirical bias in intraday volatility measures (with Y. Fang and F. Ielpo), 2012, Finance Research Letters 9, 231-237. 10. On the volatility-volume relationship in energy futures markets using intraday data (with J. Chevallier), 2012, Energy Economics 34, 1896-1909. 11. A reassessment of the risk-return tradeoff at the daily horizon (with C. Baena), 2012, Economics Bulletin 32, 190-203. Updated: December 21, 2013 2/6
12. Macro factors in oil futures returns (with Y. Le Pen), 2011, International Economics 126-127, 151-174. 13. Brownian motion vs. pure-jump processes for individual stocks (with C. Baena), 2011, Economics Bulletin 31, 3138-3152. 14. Option introduction and volatility in the EU ETS (with J. Chevallier and Y. Le Pen), 2011, Resource and Energy Economics 33, 855-880. 15. On the realized volatility of the ECX emissions 2008 futures contract: distribution, dynamics and forecasting (with J. Chevallier), 2011, Annals of Finance 7, 1-29. 16. The impact of a shock on the correlations between three indices The Lehman Brothers case (with Y. Le Pen), 2010, Revue Économique 61, 407-420. (in French) 17. Volatility transmission and volatility impulse response functions in European electricity forward markets (with Y. Le Pen), 2010, Energy Economics 32, 758-770. 18. Jump robust estimation of realized volatility in the EU ETS (with J. Chevallier), 2010, Journal of Energy Markets 3, 1-19. 19. What trends in energy efficiencies? Evidence from a robust test (with Y. Le Pen), 2010, Energy Economics 32, 702-708. 20. A pair-wise econometric approach to testing for energy intensities convergence: New method for new results (with Y. Le Pen), 2010, Ecological Economics 69, 641-650. 21. The newsboy problem under multiplicative background risk, 2010, European Journal of Operational Research 200, 918-923. 22. Risk preferences and forward trading: the case of quantity uncertainty, 2007, Louvain Economic Review 73, 217-228. (in French) 23. Hedging an unknown quantity with variable cost function, 2006, Economics Bulletin 7, 1-8. 24. A Special Case of Self-protection: The Choice of a Lawyer (with F. Yafil), 2005, Economics Bulletin 4, 1-8. 25. Spot and derivatives markets for gas and power industries (with C. Clastres), 2003, Économie et Sociétés 9, 495-511. (in French) UNDER REVIEW OR REVISION The contribution of jumps to forecasting the density of returns, (with F. Ielpo) under review. The information content of implied volatility to forecasting the density of returns: Empirical evidence using the VIX, (with F. Ielpo) under review. The incremental information content of model-free implied volatility and high-frequency data for forecasting the density of oil futures returns, (with F. Ielpo) under review. Futures trading and the excess comovement of commodity prices (with Y. Le Pen), under review. Fundamental and financial influences on the co-movement of oil and gas prices, (with D. Bunn, J. Chevallier and Y. Le Pen) under review. ONGOING WORK News and correlations: an impulse response analysis, (with Y. Le Pen), working paper. Noise, jumps, transaction clock, and the mixture-of-distributions hypothesis in WTI crude oil futures market, coming soon. What makes oil prices? (with D. Bunn and W. Rotfuß) coming soon. IN-BOOKS Modélisation stochastique des prix du pétrole. In: Énergie by J.-P. Hansen and J. Percebois, De Boeck, 2010. Marchés à terme et marchés dérivés énergétiques Le cas du gaz et de l électricité. In: Rapport au Conseil d Analyse Économique no. 74 Marchés européens de l électricité et du gaz Quels prix? Quelles marges de manœuvre pour la France? by Jean-Marie Chevalier (CGEMP) and Jacques Percebois (UM1), Paris, 2008. The Impact of Uncertainty on Banking Behavior: Evidence from the US Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Allowance Trading Program (with Olivier Rousse). In: Daniel Lieberman, Matthias Jonas et Zbigniew Nahorski (eds), Accounting for Climate Change: Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Verification, Compliance, and Trading, Springer, 2008. Updated: December 21, 2013 3/6
REPORTS Évolution du portefeuille optimal d approvisionnement d une entreprise gazière Le devenir des contrats long terme (with F. Mirabel and J. Percebois, CREDEN, Université Montpellier I), Gaz de France Négoce, June 2006. Développement des marchés financiers de couverture sur les secteurs du gaz et de l électricité, Institut Français de l Énergie (IFE) Report, March 2002. PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS Caring Competition, 2004, Energy Risk Management 2, 61-65. NON-REFEREED ARTICLES Produits dérivés et gestion du risque de prix, Energy News (Les Échos) 69, December 2003. Youth Symposium, Conseil Français de l Énergie (CFE), Newsletter 31, December 2004. L environnement victime de l ouverture des marchés, Energy News (Les Échos) 84, September 2004. COMMUNICATIONS A fear index to predict oil futures returns (with J. Chevallier): FEEM Workshop Oil Price Forecasts and Trends, May 2013, Milan. Macro factors in oil futures returns (with Y. Le Pen): European IAEE Conference, September 2012, Venice. On the stochastic properties of carbon futures prices (with J. Chevallier): European IAEE Conference, June 2011, Stockholm; 10th Applied Environmental Economics Conference (envecon), UKNEE, March 2012, London; HEC Energy & Finance Chair Research Conference The Behavior of Carbon Prices, CDC Climat Research, January 2012, Paris. Futures trading and the excess comovement of commodity prices (with Y. Le Pen): 3ème Journées de l Atelier Finance & Risque, March 2010, Nantes; Forecasting Financial Markets, May 2011, Marseille; Workshop in Development Economics, September 2011, Aix-en-Provence; XXIth International Conference on Money, Banking and Finance, December 2012, Roma; EWGCFM 51st Annual Meeting, May 2013, London; AFFI Annual Meeting, May 2013, Lyon; AFSE, June 2013, Aix-en-Provence; ESEM, August 2013, Gothenburg. Are investors downside-risk averse? An empirical analysis of the risk-return trade-off using intraday data : EFA, August 2010, Frankfurt; University of Nantes, Angers and Aix-Marseille II seminars. The contribution of jumps to forecasting the density of returns, (with F. Ielpo): Journées d Économétrie Développements récents de l économétrie appliquée à la Finance, EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre, November 2009, Nanterre; 2nd Humboldt-Copenhagen Conference on Financial Econometrics, May 2011, Copenhagen; Forecasting Financial Markets, May 2011, Marseille; ESEM, August 2011, Oslo; Computational and Financial Econometrics Conference, December 2011, London. Option introduction and volatility in the EU ETS, (with J. Chevallier and Y. Le Pen): International IAEE Conference, June 2009, San Francisco; EAERE annual conference, June 2009, Amsterdam; European IAEE conference, September 2009, Vienna; University of Stirling, September 2009, Stirling; Chaire Finance Carbone Seminar, March 2011, Paris. News and correlations: an impulse response analysis, (with Y. Le Pen): Forecasting Financial Markets, May 2009, Luxembourg; LVIII e Congrès de l AFSE, September 2009, Paris-Nanterre University; Journées d Économétrie Développements récents de l économétrie appliquée à la Finance, EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre, November 2009, Nanterre; SNDE 2010, April 2010, Novara. On the realized volatility of the ECX emissions 2008 futures contract: distribution, dynamics and forecasting, (with J. Chevallier): Atelier Finance et Risque, April 2009, Nantes; Carbon Markets Workshop, LSE, May 2009, London; 6th MONDER Conference, May 2009, Rio de Janeiro; IEW Workshop, June 2009, Venise; ESEM, August 2009, Barcelona; European IAEE Conference, September 2009, Vienna; University of Stirling, September 2009. A pair-wise econometric approach to testing for energy intensities convergence: New method for new results, (with Y. Le Pen): 31st IAEE International Conference, June 2008, Istanbul. Volatility transmission and volatility impulse response functions in European electricity forward markets, (with Y. Le Pen): 31st IAEE International Conference, June 2008, Istanbul; UKERC Meeting Policymaking Benefits and Limitations from Using Financial Methods and Modelling in Electricity Markets, St Anne s College, July 2008, Oxford (UK); LVII e Congrès de l AFSE, September 2008, Paris; Journées d Économétrie Développements récents de l économétrie appliquée à la Finance, EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre, September 2008, Nanterre. Updated: December 21, 2013 4/6
Optimal hedging in European electricity forward markets, (with Y. Le Pen) : University of Angers, September 2007; University of Nantes, May 2007; 6th Toulouse Conference on Environment and Resources Economics: Environment, Finance and Corporate Behavior, May 2007, Toulouse; 9th IAEE European Meeting, June 2007, Florence; University of Caen, June 2007. The impact of uncertainty on the firm s banking behavior in the US Acid Rain Program, (with O. Rousse): International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Verification, Compliance & Trading, September 2004, Warsaw (co-author); LACEA Annual Meeting, October 2005, Paris; LIV e Congrès de l AFSE, September 2005, Paris; 7th IAEE European Meeting, August 2005, Bergen; 45th ERSA Annual Meeting, August 2005, Amsterdam; 10th Symposium on Finance, Banking, and Insurance, December 2005, Karlsruhe; séminaire du CIRED, February 2006, Paris; 15th EAERE Annual Conference, Thessaloniki, juin 2007. Electricity sector deregulation and the environment : 19ème Congrès Mondial de l Énergie, September 2004, Sydney. Développement des marchés financiers de couverture sur les secteurs du gaz et de l électricité : séminaire de l Institut Français de l Énergie, April 2002, Paris. TEACHING ACTIVITIES Économétrie Financière (CM M1) (2013, U. Aix-Marseille). Gestion des Risques (CM, M2 MRF) (2012, U. Aix-Marseille). Numerical Option Pricing (CM, M2 MRF) (2013, U. Aix-Marseille). Optimization Methods in Finance (CM, M2 MRF) (2013, U. Aix-Marseille). Computational Finance (CM, M2 MRF) (2012, U. Aix-Marseille). Marchés Financiers (CM L2) (2012, U. Aix-Marseille). Mathématiques Financières (CM L3, 1ère année de Magistère) (2012-2013, U. Aix-Marseille). Finance de Marché (2012-2013, 1ère année de Magistère, U. Aix-Marseille). Risque et Décision (CM L3) (2011, U. de la Méditerranée). Techniques Quantitatives en Économie et Gestion (CM L3) (2011/2012, U. de la Méditerranée). Gestion des Risques (CM, M2 EBF et MRF) (2011/2012, U. de la Méditerranée). Théorie des Marchés Financiers (CM, M2 EBF et MRF) (2011, U. de la Méditerranée). Finance de Marché (CM, L3 et M1) (2011/2012, U. de la Méditerranée). Produits Dérivés (CM et TD M1) (2006/2009, U. Angers). Théorie du choix de portefeuille (CM et TD M1) (2006/2010, U. Angers). Théorie de la Finance (CM M2) (2006/2010-2012, École Centrale Nantes). Marchés de Matières Premières (2009/2011, Master Ingénierie Économique et Financière (272, IEF), U. Paris Dauphine). Séminaire Marchés de Matières Premières (2008/2010, Master BIM, U. Paris Dauphine). Gestion des Risques sur les Marchés de Matières Premières (2006/2011, Séminaire M2 Université Montpellier I et ISTOM). Marchés d Actions et d Obligations (CM et TD M1) (2006/2009, U. Angers). Mathématiques Financières (CM L3) (2006/2007, U. Angers). Tutorials in Mathématiques (TD L1, TD L2), Mathématiques Financières (TD L2), Histoire de la Pensée Économique (TD L1), Histoire des Faits Économiques (TD L1), Conférences de méthodes (TD L1), Marketing Bancaire et Financier (TD M1) while teaching assistant (2001/2006). OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PhD committees: Théo Naccache, March 2010 (Université Paris-Ouest). Member of the Scientific Committee of 2nd Symposium International sur l Énergie et la Finance (ISEFI-2014), Paris, March 28, 2014. Updated: December 21, 2013 5/6
Referee activity: American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1), Annals of Finance (1), Climate Policy (3), Economics Bulletin (4), Economic Modelling (1), Économie Appliquée (1), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (1), Energy Journal (2), Energy Economics (4), Energy Policy (7), Energy Studies Review (1), Environmental and Resource Economics (5), Environmental Science and Policy (1), Environmetrics (1), European Journal of Operational Research (4), International Journal of Production Economics (1), International Economics (1), Journal of Banking & Finance (1), Journal of Economic Integration (1), Journal of Energy Markets (1), Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (1), Journal of Futures Markets (1), Journal of the Operational Research Society (1), Louvain Economic Review (1), North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2), Resource and Energy Economics (1), Research in International Business and Finance (1), Revue d Économie Politique (1). Professional membership: Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE), Econometric Society (ES), French Economic Association (AFSE), International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), American Statistical Association (ASA). 2007/2010: Jointly responsible for the Atelier Finance & Risque du LEMNA [Atelier Finance & Risque]. 2006/2007: Jointly responsible for the Economic Seminar in Angers University (2006-2007). 2007/2010: Jointly responsible for the Economic and Management Working Paper Series of the GRANEM (Angers University) [Cahiers du GRANEM]. Updated: December 21, 2013 6/6