Behavioral Models for Energy with Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Behavioral models play a vital role in many fields in energy and natural resources and provides theories and tools that have been widely used in all areas of energy.

Most behavioral models are developed by using advanced mathematics, probability, knowledge of mathematics, probability, and statistics. Behavioral models are essential to develop theories in energy and natural resources and test their validity through the analysis of empirical real-world data.

A Special Issue of behavioral models in energy and natural resources with applications edited by Faridul Islam, Husam Rjoub, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, and Alan Wing-Keung Wong will be devoted to advancements in behavioral models with applications in different areas of energy and natural resources. This Special Issue will also bring together practical, state-of-the-art applications of mathematics, probability, and statistical techniques in energy and natural resources with applications.

This Special Issue aims to consider research on mathematical and statistical models with applications on, but not limited to, the following topics as research issues:

(i) domestic and international pricing of energy sources, such as oil, coal, gas and nuclear, hydrogen, wind, etc.;

(ii) modeling domestic and international carbon emissions prices;

(iii) modeling of financial returns and volatility of energy and natural resources;

(iv) analyzing the forecasting performance of energy commodities, natural resources and carbon emissions;

(v) analyzing the usefulness of inclusion of energy commodities, natural resources and carbon emissions as financial commodities in financial portfolios and optimal hedging (or insurance) of financial portfolios;

(vi) impacts on the environment and sustainability of pricing carbon emissions;

(vii) impacts on health and agriculture sector of (pricing) carbon emissions.

For example, authors could provide statistically valid prices for energy commodities, natural resources and carbon emissions using robust modeling techniques. Furthermore, authors could also explore financial returns, and volatility of energy commodities, natural resources and carbon emissions. Researchers are also encouraged to consider the energy commodities, natural resources and carbon emissions as financial commodities in financial portfolios and in optimal hedging (or insurance) of financial portfolios; evaluate the impacts on the environment and sustainability of pricing energy commodities, natural resources and carbon emissions; and evaluate the effects on health and agriculture costs of pricing carbon emissions, etc.

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles that advance the use of mathematics, probability, and statistics in the areas of energy and natural resources with applications. All submissions must contain original unpublished work not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Prof. Dr. Wing-Keung Wong
Dr. Faridul Islam
Dr. Husam Rjoub
Prof. Dr. Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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