Tom Light

Job Title	Graduate Student
Department	Economics
Phone	607-339-8497
E-mail	tl228@cornell.edu
Home page	http://people.cornell.edu/pages/tl228/

Tom Light is a Ph. D. candidate in the economics department at Cornell University. Tom�??s research focuses on studying the efficiency and reliability of alternative electricity market policies. Under the supervision of Professor Richard Schuler, Tom and two other graduate students completed an analysis of active real-time demand and supply-side market structures. Recently he developed and implemented an experiment to test the role of cross border power trading on competition, reliability, and economic efficiency.

Publications

Differences in Capacity Requirements, Line Flows and System Operability under Alternative Deregulated Market Structures: Simulations Derived from Experimental Trials

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Nodir Adilov, Thomas Light, Richard Schuler, William Schulze, David Toomey, and Ray Zimmerman

IEEE PES General Meeting, 2005, pp. 635-641, June 12-16, 2005

Market Structures and the Predictability of Electricity System Line Flow: An Experimental Analysis

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Nodir Adilov, Thomas Light, Richard Schuler, William Schulze, David Toomey, and Ray Zimmerman

Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 59b-59b, Jan 3-6, 2005, Waikoloa, Hawaii.

Self-Regulating Electricity Markets?

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N. Adilov, T. Light, R. Schuler, W. Schulze, D. Toomey, R. Zimmerman

Advanced Workshop in Regulation and Competition, Rutgers Center for Research in Regulated Industries, 17th Annual Western Conference, San Diego, CA, June 24, 2004.