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1300 Eye Street NW Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

phone: 202.747.2108
fax: 202.408.7838

Guillermo Israilevich, Ph.D.

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Guillermo Israilevich specializes in energy market design, market power, tariff reviews, and antitrust matters in regulated industry disputes. Dr. Israilevich has provided economic analyses related to competitive market behavior in restructured electric power markets and regulated utilities’ ability to exercise horizontal and vertical market power. He also has expertise in market design, regulatory accounting and cost allocation, capacity markets, and investment costs for merchant generation plants. Dr. Israilevich has an extensive background in industrial organization, regulation, finance, and strategy matters. He has submitted testimony before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and regulatory commissions in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Bolivia. Dr. Israilevich has published in peer-reviewed journals and industry magazines. Dr. Israilevich’s distinctions include receiving: the Oscar Mayer Foundation Fellowship; the University of Chicago Fellowship (a four-year fellowship from the Graduate School of Business); the Award from the Professional Council of Economics Sciences of Córdoba in Argentina; the University Prize, Honorable Mention, and School of Economics Prize at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina; and the Fundación Mediterránea Scholarship in Argentina.

Prior to joining Bates White, Dr. Israilevich served as a Research Assistant at the University of Chicago, where he developed microeconomic models to forecast business fluctuations in the United States and analyzed competition and market structure in electronic markets. Dr. Israilevich served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Chicago, where he taught graduate-level courses in business strategy and undergraduate-level courses in microeconomics. He also consulted on business and regional development strategies as an Economist at the Institute of Economic Studies for the Argentine and Latin America Reality in Argentina.

Ph.D., Business Economics, University of Chicago; M.B.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Economics, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Languages: Spanish

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Areas of expertise

Industrial organization

Regulatory economics

Capacity markets

Tariff reviews

Statistical and financial analysis

Market research and strategy

Spotlights
Spotlights
Presentations
An Assessment of the Financial Performance Obligation Proposal by the American Forest & Paper Association

Press releases
Bates White economist, Jonathan Lesser, speaks on AF&PA FPO proposal at FERC conference

BatesWhite publishes article on reliability markets in Public Utilities Fortnightly

Publications
The High Cost of ‘Free’ Capacity

The Capactity Market Enigma: Why haven’t reliability markets developed?