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George R. Schink’s areas of expertise include energy economics, regulatory economics, financial economics related to the cost of service for regulated entities, antitrust economics, damage and liability analyses, econometrics, and statistics. He has done extensive research in energy markets including electricity, natural gas, crude oil, and refined products. Dr Schink also has extensive experience with regulatory matters regarding electric utilities, gas distribution utilities, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, telecommunications, webcasting, and cable television. He has worked on mergers and other antitrust matters for companies in energy and other industries and also has done liability and damage analyses for these same industries. Dr. Schink also has done substantial work related to motor vehicle markets including analyses of the demand and supply of motor vehicles and of the markets served by individual dealers. He has testified as an expert witness in federal and state courts and before federal and state regulatory bodies including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, and the Federal Communications Commission. Dr. Schink also has testified before congressional committees and has made presentations to the Federal Trade Commission on behalf of companies seeking to merge.
Dr. Schink taught economics while at the University of Maryland and as an adjunct associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from which he previously earned his PhD in economics. He was at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA), currently Global Insight, for 16 years where he was involved in a wide variety of consulting, forecasting, and econometric modeling activities including analyses of regulated industries, the energy industry, auto industry, telecommunications industry, cable television industry, and various consumer product and service industries. Also, Dr. Schink developed and used a large-scale macro econometric model of the US economy while at WEFA, and he continues to do consulting regarding the economy-wide effects of public policies and of the activities within a given sector of the economy. | 