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Long-run price elasticities and mechanisms: Empirical evidence from residential electricity consumers (Job Market Paper)

Long-run elasticities, while difficult to empirically estimate, are critical inputs for welfare analysis, demand forecasting, and policy evaluation. In this paper, I leverage a novel source of exogenous and persistent price variation to estimate the …

Spillovers from Ancillary Services to Wholesale Power Markets (Accepted to The RAND Journal of Economics)

In electricity markets, generators are rewarded both for providing energy and for enabling grid reliability. The two functions are compensated with two separate payments: energy market payments and ancillary services market payments. We provide …