Megan Henderson Accordino
UCLA Department of Economics, 8283 Bunche Hall, Mail Stop: 147703, Los Angeles, CA 90095
maccordino@ucla.edu http://www.meganhaccordino.com
216-372-6558
Education UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Ph.D. in Economics
M.A. in Economics
Los Angeles, CA
Expected: 2015
2012
Fellow, Clean Energy for Green Industry Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
Funded by the National Science Foundation
2011-2013
Co-chair of Seminar Planning Committee
2012-2013
Co-chair of ReSET Workshop Planning Committee: http://cleanenergy.ucla.edu/reset/
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics
2012
2012-Present
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I and II
Industrial Organization
Econometrics
Research Assistant, Deepak Rajagopal
2011-Present
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2010
Research
Primary Fields: Industrial Organization, Energy Economics
Job Market Paper
Incentives for and Detection of Manipulation with Spot and Futures Markets, 2014
Published and Other Working Papers
When a National Cap-and-Trade Policy with a Carve-out Provision May Be Preferable to a
National CO2 Tax, with Deepak Rajagopal. Forthcoming in The Energy Journal, 2015.
Storage or Natural Gas: Which Best Complements Increasing Wind Generation?, 2012.
Does Adding Electricity Storage to the Grid Make Sense? An Examination of the Effect on
Emissions and Volatility, with Nick Nairn-Birch, 2011.
Geographic Market Delineation in LMP Electric Power Markets, with John R. Morris, The
Electricity Journal, Vol. 23 Issue 3, April 2010.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Economics
B.A. in International Studies with Honors
Summa Cum Laude GPA: 3.98/4.0
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2007
Cleveland, OH
Resume of Megan Henderson Accordino
Awards & Activities
Winner, Case Public Policy Competition
May 2007
H.W. Kneisner Prize for Excellence in Economics
May 2007
Spanish Book Prize
May 2004
Provost Scholarship and Ohio Leadership Award
2003 2007
Research and Teaching Assistant
2006 - 2007
Phi Beta Kappa (elected as a junior)
2006 2007
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
The General Course Study Abroad Program
2005 2006
London, UK
2013 2014
Los Angeles, CA
Professional Experience
20/20 Business Vision
Statistical Consultant
Analyzed data concerning allegations of racial discrimination in the determination of interest
rates on housing loans.
Economists Incorporated
Energy Analyst
Research Associate
Washington, DC
Apr. 2009 Dec. 2010
July 2007 Apr. 2009
Researched allegations of price manipulation in natural gas markets and of undue discrimination
on the Oasis Pipeline in the Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) matter.
Analyzed market concentration for potential electric power mergers.
Prepared market-based rate authority applications.
Regularly attended meetings with clients and assisted in pre-hearing witness preparation.
Managed casework for teams of research associates and economists to ensure it was completed
promptly and accurately.
Developed a data processing system to automate data preparation for electric power industry
merger simulation program.
Taught seminars and wrote tutorials on managing and analyzing data in Stata.
RBB Economics
Visiting Analyst
Apr. July 2008
London, UK
Researched potential for anti-competitive effects in the proposed BHP Billiton-Rio Tinto merger.
Ohio Board of Regents
Data Analysis Intern
June Aug. 2006
Columbus, OH
Cleveland Council on World Affairs
Lecture Programs Intern
May Aug. 2005
Cleveland, OH
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Conferences
Western Economic Association International, Paper Presentation
U.S. Association for Energy Economics, Paper Presentation
UCE3 Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics, UC Berkeley
June 2013
Nov. 2012
Aug. 2011
Referee Work
Journal of Public Economics
Energy Economics
Software
Highly Proficient in Stata, Excel, Matlab, and LaTeX
Some Experience with Access, SAS, and SQL
References
Placement Director: Prof. Till von Wachter
Placement Director: Prof. Bill Zame
Placement Coordinator: Jessica Perez
Committee Chair: Prof. Hugo Hopenhayn
Prof. Connan Snider
Prof. Pierre Olivier-Weill
Prof. Deepak Rajagopal
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tvwachter@econ.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 825-5665
zame@econ.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 206-9463
jessica@econ.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 206-1413
hopen@econ.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 206-8896
snider@econ.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 794-7104
poweill@econ.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 794-6495
rdeepak@ioes.ucla.edu; Phone: (310) 948-7171
