Keppler Jan-Horst

Biography

Jan Horst Keppler is professor of economics at the Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, where he co-directs the Master Energy, Finance, Carbon (EFC) and teaches classes on “The Economics of Energy and the Environment”, "Industrial Economics" and "History of Economic Thought". He is senior researcher at the CGEMP and the PHARE, as well as senior economic advisor to the OECD. Professor Keppler’s two principal areas of research are (1) the financing and competitiveness of low carbon technologies such as nuclear energy and renewables in the context of the energy transition and (2) the study of the unconscious, libidinal drivers of market exchange and its consequences for political economy in theory and practice. Recent publications include  Economie de marché et inconscient (Classiques Garnier, 2024), "Optimal DSO/market coordination for the activation of distributed flexibility" (Utility Policy 82, 2023), Economie industrielle (de Boeck, 2023), "Why the Sustainable Provision of Low-Carbon Electricity Needs Hybrid Markets", (Energy Policy, 2022), Financing New Nuclear Power Plants: Minimising the Cost of Capital by Optimising Risk Management (OECD, 2022), The Costs of Decarbonisation: System Costs with High Shares of Nuclear and Renewables (OECD, 2019), “Determining Optimal Interconnection Capacity on the Basis of Hourly Demand and Supply Functions of Electricity” (Energy Journal, 2018) as well as “Rationales for Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms” (Energy Policy, 2017). Jan Horst Keppler' s research in the anthropology of economics also includes Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions (Routledge, 2010), and "The Market, the Firm and the Unconscious" (Marché et organisations, 2025).

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