Lawrence Haar

My research interests concern the application of Financial-Economic theory to the energy, petroleum and natural resource sectors. Adopting innovative approaches to perennial issues, I am interested in how regulatory policies impact the behaviour of market participants and the resulting impact on allocative efficiency.  I rely exclusively upon public data as published by markets and their regulators.  While some of my research involves advanced analytic methods and econometrics, I also utilize casual empiricism and theoretical insights to address contemporary policy matters, such as competition in retail electricity markets, the fiscal incidence of Renewable Energy support and the economic rationale for risk management activities.