Hi Jeff:

March seems a long ways away right now, but we are trying to put together
the program for the sixth annual POWER Conference on Electricity Industry
Restructuring, which will be March 16 in Berkeley.   The conference is
divided into 4 sessions, each with two papers.  We would like to invite
you to be a discussant in the fourth session (program below).  It would
involve just a 10 minute discussion of one or both papers and then
participating in the Q&A.  Would you be interested?

Severin

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Severin Borenstein

E.T. Grether Professor of Business
Administration and Public Policy   Director
Haas School of Business              U.C. Energy Institute
University of California             2539 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900              Berkeley, CA 94720-5180
(p) 510-642-3689                     (p) 510-642-5145
(f) 707-885-2508                     http://www.ucei.org

Email: borenste@haas.berkeley.edu
WWW: http://haas.berkeley.edu/~borenste






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Session #1

Greg Crawford (Duke) , Joe Crespo (UNC), and Helen Tauchen (UNC). "Bidding
Asymmetries in Multi-Unit Auctions: Implications of Bid Function Equilibria
in the British Spot Market for Electricity."

Steven Puller (UC Berkeley). "Pricing and Firm Conduct in California's
Deregulated Electricity Market."

Discussants: Peter Carmton (U of Maryland), Anjali Sheffrin (California
ISO)

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Session #2

Frank Wolak (Stanford). "Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions
Using Observed Bid Data: An Application to Electricity Markets."

Jeffrey Lien (Maryland). "Forward Contracts and the Curse of Market
Power."

Discussants: Richard Green (University of Hull, UK),

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Session #3

James Bushnell and Erin Mansur (UCEI), "The Impact of Retail Price
Deregulation on Electricity Consumption in San Diego"

Julie Berry Cullen (Michigan), Leora Friedberg (Virginia) and Catherine
Wolfram (UC Berkeley).  "Consumption and Home Energy Costs: How Prevalent
is the 'Heat or Eat' Decision?"

Discussants:

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Session #4

Paul Joskow (MIT) and Edward Kahn (Analysis Group).  "A Quantitative
Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market
During Summer 2000."

Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Anthony Paul
(Resources for the Future). "Electricity Restructuring and the Cost of
Pollution Reduction."

Discussants: