CEER Research
CEER promotes research investigating both business and policy risk across the earth science disciplines. It also promotes the themes encompassed by the undergraduate program in Energy Business and Finance but is widening the goals of that program to attract and support cross-disciplinary faculty research.
The Center is currently developing its specific research focus but proposed research themes include the following:
- Hurricane Impacts
Forward planning in terms of policy and economic strategies as well as meteorological advances are needed in the interdisciplinary studies of hurricane impacts.
- Energy Policy
Research is needed in the area of energy risk, such the threat to U.S. society from its heavy reliance on imported oil and the threat to energy infrastructure from acts of terrorism.
- Weather Financial Instruments
The method by which these types of financial instrments can be used to mitigate environmental risks to financial markets needs to be investigated.
- Catastropic Bonds
Identification of improved triggers for use in the CAT bond market - tradable securities typically issued by reinsurance company to raise money in the event of a pre-defined catastropic event.
