GeoVerse Lab
← Economics, Policy & Strategy Division

Energy Economics & Market Analysis Center

Analyzes energy markets, resource valuation, and the economic feasibility of geoenergy projects, conducting cost-benefit analysis, market modeling, and economic optimization for exploration, production, and transition investments.

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Research Fields 17
Capital Budgeting & Investment Appraisal
🧮 Capital Budgeting & Investment Appraisal
Capital budgeting is the procedure by which an organisation decides which long-lived inves…
Interest Theory & Time Value of Money
⏳ Interest Theory & Time Value of Money
Interest theory explains why a rupee today trades for more than a rupee tomorrow, and what…
Origins of Exhaustible Resource Depletion Theory
⛏️ Origins of Exhaustible Resource Depletion Theory
Depletion theory analyses how a stock that cannot renew itself — an ore body, a coal seam,…
Growth Theory with Exhaustible Resources & Sustainability Rules
♻️ Growth Theory with Exhaustible Resources & Sustainability Rules
Growth theory with exhaustible resources asks whether an economy that draws down a finite …
Petroleum Economics & Oil Market Structure
🛢️ Petroleum Economics & Oil Market Structure
Petroleum economics studies how oil is found, produced, traded and priced: the economics o…
Peak-Load Pricing & Levelized Cost of Electricity
⚡ Peak-Load Pricing & Levelized Cost of Electricity
Peak-load pricing is the application of marginal-cost pricing to industries whose demand v…
Risk, Uncertainty & Investment Decision-Making
🌫️ Risk, Uncertainty & Investment Decision-Making
This field studies economic decisions when outcomes are not known, distinguishing two regi…
Input-Output Analysis of Energy Systems
🕸️ Input-Output Analysis of Energy Systems
Input-output analysis is an accounting and modelling framework that represents an economy …
Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of Energy Markets
⚙️ Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of Energy Markets
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling simulates an entire economy — households, i…
Externalities & the Economics of Carbon Pricing
🌡️ Externalities & the Economics of Carbon Pricing
Externaity economics studies costs and benefits that market prices fail to carry: damage t…
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Public Energy Projects
📐 Cost-Benefit Analysis of Public Energy Projects
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic appraisal of public projects and policies by…
Public Utility Regulation & Energy Market Deregulation
🚦 Public Utility Regulation & Energy Market Deregulation
Utility regulation studies how government should control the prices, investment and servic…
Ecological Economics & Entropy of Resource Use
🔥 Ecological Economics & Entropy of Resource Use
Ecological economics treats the economy as a subsystem of the biosphere, open to flows of …
Uncertainty, Information & Real Options in Energy Investment
🔐 Uncertainty, Information & Real Options in Energy Investment
This field studies investment and preservation decisions whose consequences are partly irr…
Econometric Forecasting of Energy Demand
📉 Econometric Forecasting of Energy Demand
Econometric forecasting of energy demand constructs statistical models that relate consump…
Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Energy Risk Analysis
🎲 Monte Carlo Simulation Methods for Energy Risk Analysis
Monte Carlo methods estimate the behaviour of complex systems by driving them with random …
Commodity Futures Markets & Energy Price Hedging
📊 Commodity Futures Markets & Energy Price Hedging
Commodity futures analysis studies the markets in which promises of future delivery are tr…