The Mats Summer School on Agricultural Finance will take place at the Centre Paul Langevin in Aussois, France, from June 30 to July 4, 2025.

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The aim of the summer school is to contribute to the development of research on the economic and financial implications of agricultural transitions, through the training of young researchers, with a dual focus on:

• raising awareness and understanding of these issues
• training in quantitative methods adapted to these issues 

Particular emphasis will be placed on:

• methods that make use of massive or high-dimensional data
• risk management of agricultural transitions issues
• connection with energy issues (through markets, through managing land and water use conflicts)

4 courses will be held:

A course on Farmers and Risk Management by Bertrand Villeneuve (U. Paris Dauphine - PSL)

A Course on Machine Learning and Big Data to Identify Market Expectations and Surprises: Evidence from Agricultural Markets, by Ann N. Q. Cao (U. Bonn) & Michel Robe (U. Richmond). 

A course of Multi-scale Modelling of Precipitations by Marc Hoffmann (U. Paris Dauphine - PSL) & Thomas Deschatre (EDF R&D)

A course on Network Analysis and Systemic Risk: An Application to Agricultural Markets by Delphine Lautier (U. Paris Dauphine - PSL), Julien Ling (Collège de France) & Frank Raynaud (U. Génève)

It will also include some hands-on (supervised) sessions, some paper sessions (invited and contributed talks), some poster sessions and some spare time to allow the participants to discuss / advance their own research. 

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