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I am an economic consultant specializing in conducting econometric and economic analysis and applying concepts from industrial organization and regulatory economics to competition, regulatory, and other litigation matters.I frequently provide economic analysis of cartel behavior, and assessment of liability and damages in matters concerning alleged collusion. I also have experience analyzing the competitive effects of proposed mergers and exclusionary practices. Additionally, I conduct similar econometric work in antitrust and regulatory matters in the electric, postal, transportation, and other industries. In regulatory proceedings, I have extensive experience conducting analysis for and submitting expert reports that often involve regulatory costing or rate-making issues. This includes extensive analysis of regression-based costing models and other economic issues in the postal industry, econometric analysis of the load impacts of innovative pricing programs in the electric industry, and rate of return analysis in the telecommunications industry. I have also acted as both an independent evaluator and an advisor to several procurement processes in the electricity sector, involving renewable energy, transmission capacity, and other energy products.I also have varied experience in the electricity industry. This includes conducting damages assessments in litigation matters and analyses of price effects, market power, and anticompetitive behavior in several litigation proceedings arising from the California electricity crisis of 2000–2001. I have also analyzed the cost and feasibility of renewables-only energy portfolios.

Listed skills include Economics, Econometrics, Stata, Microeconomics, and 20 others.