Market Power and Spatial Arbitrage between Interconnected Gas Hubs

Speaker: Albert Banal-Estanol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Albert Banal-Estanol is a Reader in Business and Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Programme Director of the MSc in Corporate Finance and Banking at the UPF-Barcelona School of Management, affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), affiliated Reader at City University London, a visiting professor at the IFP-Energies Nouvelles in Paris and a research fellow at the SP-SP Public-Private Sector Research Center at IESE Business School.

His research interests are in the fields of corporate finance, competition policy and market regulation, energy and the environment and innovation and entrepreneurship. Albert’s research areas span across economics, management and finance and his work makes use of theoretical, empirical, experimental and simulation techniques. His articles have been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals and have been financially supported by public and private sector grants.

Albert has provided consultant advice to merging companies and competition authorities for example, the Office of Fair Trading. He has also delivered executive training courses for government agencies such as the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry, regulators including Ofgem, and private companies such as Gaz de France. He has also collaborated in the development of Master and training programmes in several African countries.