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The author of numerous books and articles, his publications include: Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer for Energy Efficiency, Restructuring Electricity Markets: A World Perspective Post California and Enron, Restructuring Electricity Markets: A World Perspective, Alaskan Oil: Alternative Routes and Markets; Perspectives on Power, co-authored with Edward Berlin and William Gillen; The Marginal Cost and Pricing of Electricity: An Applied Approach, with William Gillen and Paul Smolensky; The Costs of Congestion: An Economic Analysis of Wilderness Recreation, with V. Kerry Smith; and Forecasting Recreation in the United States. He has edited Energy Systems Forecasting, Planning and Pricing, with W.K. Foell; and Studies in Electric Utility Regulation, with John Jurewitz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Senior Personnel|url=http://pacificeconomicsgroup.com/senior-personnel.html|publisher=Pacific Economics Group Research LLC|accessdate=22 August 2012}}</ref> |
The author of numerous books and articles, his publications include: Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer for Energy Efficiency, Restructuring Electricity Markets: A World Perspective Post California and Enron, Restructuring Electricity Markets: A World Perspective, Alaskan Oil: Alternative Routes and Markets; Perspectives on Power, co-authored with Edward Berlin and William Gillen; The Marginal Cost and Pricing of Electricity: An Applied Approach, with William Gillen and Paul Smolensky; The Costs of Congestion: An Economic Analysis of Wilderness Recreation, with V. Kerry Smith; and Forecasting Recreation in the United States. He has edited Energy Systems Forecasting, Planning and Pricing, with W.K. Foell; and Studies in Electric Utility Regulation, with John Jurewitz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Senior Personnel|url=http://pacificeconomicsgroup.com/senior-personnel.html|publisher=Pacific Economics Group Research LLC|accessdate=22 August 2012}}</ref> |
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== 2020 lawsuit == |
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A donor to [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|Donald Trump's 2016 campaign]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=OpenSecrets Donor Lookup|url=https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=charles+Cicchetti|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211043900/https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=charles+Cicchetti|archive-date=December 11, 2020|access-date=2020-12-10|website=opensecrets.org}}</ref> Cicchetti filed a declaration supporting Texas in ''[[Texas v. Pennsylvania]]'' (2020), Texas's lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan from certifying their electors for [[Joe Biden]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election]].<ref name="lawsuit">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Motion For Expedited Consideration Of The Motion For Leave To File A Bill Of Complaint And For Expedition Of Any Plenary Consideration Of The Matter On The Pleadings If Plaintiffs' Forthcoming Motion For Interim Relief Is Not Granted|url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163048/20201208132827887_TX-v-State-ExpedMot%202020-12-07%20FINAL.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208233547/https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163048/20201208132827887_TX-v-State-ExpedMot%202020-12-07%20FINAL.pdf|archive-date=December 8, 2020|access-date=2020-12-08|website=supremecourt.gov}}</ref> In the declaration he claimed that, given Trump's lead in the popular vote in those states on election night, the probability of Biden coming from behind and ultimately winning the state was "one in a quadrillion". He based his analysis on the erroneous assumption that votes are evenly and randomly distributed among geographic regions, demographics, and voting method, so that any two large groups of voters should generate similar results.<ref name="factcheck" /> In a declaration attached to the lawsuit, he claims that the shift from an early Trump lead to a late Biden lead was statistically impossible because "the reported tabulations in the early and subsequent periods could not remotely plausibly be random samples from the same population."<ref name="lawsuit"/> Contradicting this statement, it has been widely reported that more Democrats requested mail-in ballots than Republicans, so that in mail-in voters came from a different population than in-person voters.<ref>{{cite news|last=Broadwater|first=Luke|date=September 30, 2020|title=Both Parties Fret as More Democrats Request Mail Ballots in Key States|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/mail-voting-democrats-republicans-turnout.html|location=New York|access-date=December 11, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Coleman|first=Justine|date=September 15, 2020|title=Democrats more likely than Republicans to mail in ballots early: poll|work=The Hill|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/516521-democrats-more-likely-to-mail-in-ballots-early-than-republicans-poll|location=Washington, DC|access-date=December 11, 2020}}</ref> |
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His approach was described as "ludicrous", "comical" and "statistical incompetence" by several academics.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Peters|first=Jeremy W.|last2=Montgomery|first2=David|last3=Qiu|first3=Linda|last4=Liptak|first4=Adam|date=2020-12-11|title=Two reasons the Texas election case is faulty: flawed legal theory and statistical fallacy.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/technology/texas-election-lawsuit-legality.html|access-date=2020-12-11|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Kenneth Mayer, professor of political science at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], said the analysis "is going to be used in undergraduate statistics classes as a canonical example of how not to do statistics."<ref name="factcheck" /> [[David Post]], a law professor at the [[Beasley School of Law]], wrote that "Cicchetti's analysis—for which, I assume, he was paid handsomely—is merely silly, irrelevant, and a total waste of time."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Post |first1=David |authorlink1=David Post |title=More on Statistical Stupidity at SCOTUS |url=https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/09/more-on-statistical-stupidity-at-scotus/ |access-date=December 9, 2020 |work=Reason |date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209150437/https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/09/more-on-statistical-stupidity-at-scotus/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[PolitiFact]] rated Cicchetti's claims "Pants on Fire."<ref name="factcheck">{{Cite news|last=Litke|first=Eric|date=December 9, 2020|title=Lawsuit claim that statistics prove fraud in Wisconsin, elsewhere is wildly illogical|work=[[PolitiFact]]|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/10/facebook-posts/texas-lawsuit-statistics-fraud-wisconsin-michigan/|url-status=live|access-date=December 9, 2020|archive-date=December 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210013829/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/10/facebook-posts/texas-lawsuit-statistics-fraud-wisconsin-michigan/}}</ref> |
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== Selected publications == |
== Selected publications == |
Revision as of 18:25, 11 December 2020
Charles J. Cicchetti is an American economist. He is a managing director at Berkeley Research Group.
Education
Cicchetti studied at the United States Air Force Academy from 1961 to 1964 and received a bachelor's degree in economics from Colorado College in 1965. He received a PhD in economics from Rutgers University in 1969.[1]
Career
Cicchetti was a founding member of Pacific Economics Group and a senior advisor to Pacific Economics Group Research. Previously, Cicchetti was the Jeffrey J. Miller Professor of Government, Business, and the Economy at the University of Southern California; a managing director of Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting; a co-chairman of Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, and a deputy director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1][2][3] Cicchetti has testified before regulatory agencies in the U.S. and abroad on tariff design, the rate of return, and the organizational structure of the natural gas, electricity, water and telecommunications industries. He has prepared expert testimony for various federal proceedings on a variety of topics.[4] His testimony in environmental litigation has dealt with natural resource damage assessment and cost allocation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Oil Pollution Act. He has worked in developing nations throughout the world and designed the World Bank's Build, Own, Operate, and Turnover (BOOT) public/private investment program for infrastructure development.
The author of numerous books and articles, his publications include: Going Green and Getting Regulation Right: A Primer for Energy Efficiency, Restructuring Electricity Markets: A World Perspective Post California and Enron, Restructuring Electricity Markets: A World Perspective, Alaskan Oil: Alternative Routes and Markets; Perspectives on Power, co-authored with Edward Berlin and William Gillen; The Marginal Cost and Pricing of Electricity: An Applied Approach, with William Gillen and Paul Smolensky; The Costs of Congestion: An Economic Analysis of Wilderness Recreation, with V. Kerry Smith; and Forecasting Recreation in the United States. He has edited Energy Systems Forecasting, Planning and Pricing, with W.K. Foell; and Studies in Electric Utility Regulation, with John Jurewitz.[5]
Selected publications
- Cicchetti, Charles J. (October 29, 2019) [1972]. Alaskan Oil: Alternative Routes and Markets. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-40121-0. OCLC 1003131023.[6]
References
- ^ a b Cicchetti, Charles. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ "Charles J. Cicchetti | People | Berkeley Research Group". www.thinkbrg.com. Archived from the original on December 9, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ "USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development - Catalogue 2004–05". University of Southern California. 2004. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ Cicchetti 2014, https://www.jurispro.com/files/documents/doc-1066207051-resume.pdf
- ^ "Senior Personnel". Pacific Economics Group Research LLC. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
- ^ Melamid, Alexander (October 1973). Economic Geography. 49 (4): 367. doi:10.2307/143240. JSTOR 143240.
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