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Hosted by the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.
Over the past several decades, policymakers have continued to experiment with approaches for liberalizing markets in areas previously subject to strict command and control regulation. Three domains where market structures are just beginning to take hold are in the areas of electricity, water, and wireless spectrum. In each domain, policymakers have grappled with the specific nature of the relevant commodity and developed different approaches to the challenge of enabling the market to provide more dynamic access to it. In all cases, the opportunities for greater efficiencies on account of more dynamic access has fueled the effort by reformers to come up with new approaches to market design.
In this conference, we will bring together experts in the different domains to look at the development in markets in the electric power, water, and wireless spectrum arenas. In so doing, we will evaluate comparisons between the economics of each to evaluate the particular challenges in each domain and to investigate better practices going forward. The main questions to be explored include: How do you design a market? What are the consistencies that the secondary users have to respect (think interference characteristics in spectrum and return flows in water)? What forces drove and are driving the development of each of these markets?
Sessions
Welcome
- Phil Weiser
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Brad Udall
Executive Director, Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment
Markets In Water
- Brad Udall — Moderator
Executive Director, Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment - Richard Howitt
Professor, University of California Davis - Mark Squillace
Professor of Law, University of Colorado - Charles Howe
Professor of Economics, University of Colorado - Chris Goemans
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
Break
Real-Time Markets In Electric Power
- William Boyd — Moderator
Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado - Raymond Gifford
Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP - Wendy Moser
Vice President, Regulatory Services and Resource Planning, Black Hills Corporation - Dave Hurlbut
Senior Analyst, NREL - Rimvydas Baltaduonis
Assistant Professor of Economics, Gettysburg College
Lessons from Across the Three Domains
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - William Boyd
Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado - Dale Hatfield
Spectrum Policy Initiative Co-director and Distinguished Advisor, Silicon Flatirons - Brad Udall
Executive Director, Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment - Richard Howitt
Professor, University of California Davis
Break
Markets in Wireless Spectrum
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Michele C. Farquhar
Partner, Hogan Lovells - Charla Rath
Vice President, Wireless Policy Development, Verizon - Robert B. Kelly
Partner, Squire Patton Boggs - Coleman Bazelon
Principal, The Brattle Group