Haas School of Business

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	James B. Bushnell Research Director, University of California Energy Institute Lecturer Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group 510-642-7316 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: Thursdays 1-2:30 p.m., UCEI, 2547 Channing Way Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BS, Economics and Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MS, Operations Research, UC Berkeley
PhD, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley

Positions Held

At Haas since 1999
1999 - present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
1993 - present, Research Director, University of California Energy Institute

External Service and Assignments

Associate Editor, Operations Research
Member, Market Surveillance Committee, California ISO
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Electricity Markets, Berkeley, CA

Current Research and Interests

Industrial organization and regulatory economics
Energy policy
Environmental economics
Game theoretic optimization models

Selected Papers and Publications

“Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure and Competition: An analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets,” with Erin Mansur and Celeste Saravia. American Economic Review, forthcoming.
“Oligopoly Equilibria in Electricity Contract Markets.” Journal of Regulatory Economics, forthcoming.
“Inefficiencies and Market Power in Financial Arbitrage: A Study of California's Electricity Markets,” with Severin Borenstein, Christopher R. Knittel, and Catherine Wolfram. Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming.
“Electricity Resource Adequacy: Matching Policies and Goals.” The Electricity Journal (September 2005).
“Consumption under noisy price signals: a study of electricity retail rate deregulation in San Diego,” with Erin Mansur. Journal of Industrial Economics 53, no. 4 (2005): 493-513.
“California’s Electricity Crisis: a market apart?” Energy Policy 32 (2004): 1045-1052.
''A Mixed Complementarity Model of Hydro-Thermal Electricity Competition in the Western U.S.'' Operations Research 51, no. 1 (January-February 2003): 81-93.
"Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California's Wholesale Electricity Industry," with Severin Borenstein and Frank Wolak. American Economic Review 92, no. 5 (Winter 2002): 1376-1405.

Teaching

Energy and Environmental Markets, MBA 212

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