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David RAMBERG

Academic Background:

• 2010 - present • MIT, ESD: PhD student Candidate in Engineering Systems
• 2008 - 2010 • MIT: SM Technology and Policy
• 1991 - 1995 • University of Washington, Economics

Work Experience:

• 2008-present • Freelance Economics Consultant
• 2004 - 2008 • Insight Research, Inc. (and Economic Insight, Inc. - parent  parent company of Insight Research)
  Vice President, Publications
  Consulting Economist
• 2006 - 2007 • Fight Monkey (rock band)
  Lead singer/songwriter
  * 2003 - 2006 • Superphwãa (rock band)
  Lead singer/songwriter
• 2001 - 2004 • Economic Insight, Inc.
  Consulting Economist
  Writer for the Energy Market Report and editor of Pacific West Oil Data
• 1988 - 1999 • Actor/Model/Bartender, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1988 - 1999 • Mercurio Online Translation Services, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Entrepreneur

Research Domain:

energy economics, fossil fuel market integration, the effects of new energy conversion technologies on the energy use profiles of energy-intensive sectors

Research Methodology:

econometric analysis, statistics, Monte Carlo simulation, general equilibrium modeling, discounted cash flow (for calibration purposes).

Research Description:

D.J. is expanding his previous work on the spot price relationship between crude oil and natural gas by investigating how different factors that may affect the pricing relationship impact market evolution. As an example, his dissertation focuses on how new conversion technologies affect the evolution behavior of the market sector into which they are introduced as well as the energy use in other sectors of the economy that use energy - which is all of them. Does a technology that initially appears promising from the economic and environmental perspective continue to appear promising once the interactions between the technology and the economy are tracked through to their ultimate consequences after deployment, and how that affects the market pricing relationships between crude oil and natural gas. Can a single technology deployment shift energy consumption patterns enough to impact demand and cause shifts in the market price relationship between oil and natural gas?