Janne Kettunen

Dr. Janne Kettunen is an Assistant Professor jointly at the Haskayne School of Business, Operations Management and the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy where he teaches in the MBA program and Energy and Environmental Systems specialization, respectively. He has been involved in teaching at undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs since 2001 in various universities including London Business School, where he has guest lectured on electricity markets, real options, risk management, and carbon finance.

His research interests are focused on decision analytic methods to aid operations, capacity investment, and resource management decisions under uncertainty. In terms of application areas, his specialties are energy market and new product development. He has published in scholarly journals including The Energy Journal, Energy Policy, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and has served as a peer reviewer for academic journals, such as European Journal of Operations Research, The Energy Journal, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and Journal of Energy Markets. He is frequently presenting his work in international conferences in the fields of decision analysis and energy and natural resources.

Prior to engaging in the academic career, he has worked with companies and institutes including Nokia, The Board of Actuarials Standards (UK), Compagnie Financiere Tradition, and Institute of Strategy and International Business (Finland).

Expertise:

Decision analysis; operations, capacity investment, and resource management decisions under uncertainty; energy market; new product development.

Publications:

1. Kettunen, J., D. W. Bunn, W. Blyth. 2011 Investment Propensities under Carbon Policy Uncertainty. The Energy Journal 32(1), 77-117.

2. Kettunen, J., A. Salo, D. W. Bunn. 2010. Optimization of Electricity Retailer’s Contract Portfolio Subject to Risk Preferences. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 25(1), 117-128.

3. Blyth, W., D. W. Bunn, J. Kettunen, T. Wilson. 2009. Policy Interactions, Risk and Price Formation in Carbon Markets. Energy Policy 37(12), 5192-5207.

4. Kettunen, J., G. Meissner. Summer 2006. Valuing Credit Default Swaps on Correlated LMM Processes. Journal of Alternative Investments 9(1), 78-88.

Working Papers:

5. Kettunen, J., Y. Grushka-Cockayne, B. De Reyck, Z. Degraeve, New Product Development: The Impact of Competition.

6. Kettunen, J., A. Salo. Interactive Natural Resources Portfolio Analysis.

7. McKellar, J. M., J. A. Bergerson, J. Kettunen, H. L. MacLean. Predicting Project Environmental Performance under Market Uncertainties.

8. Kettunen, J., D. W. Bunn. Resource Based Path Dependency and Risk Aversion.

9. Chen, L., J. Kettunen, J. Carbone, M. Mazadi. Carbon Policy Uncertainty and Generation Mix.

10. Kettunen, J., G. J.C. da Silveira, F. S. Fogliatto. Do Contract and Meter Choice Explain Electricity Usage?

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