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Dan McLeod

Dan McLeod

Economist

PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dr. Daniel McLeod is an Economist with an academic background in empirical industrial organization and applied econometrics. He has been involved in the calibration of price and revenue caps, helped design and evaluate incentive regulation plans, performed and critiqued cost benchmarking studies, and estimated the load impacts of EV smart charging algorithms and critical peak pricing demand response programs.  As a graduate student, Daniel taught classes in econometrics and machine learning. His research proposed a novel econometric approach to estimating marginal costs in the airline industry and quantified the impacts of airline mergers using both structural models of the industry and emerging deep learning algorithms.


News & Updates

Crowley and McLeod Analyze Distribution Utility Costs

April 23, 2024 - Analysis by Mr. Nicholas Crowley and Dr. Daniel McLeod finds that consumer prices for electricity have increased substantially since the Covid-19 pandemic.