JUNJIE SUN


Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

Home: (515) 965-3266, Cell: (515) 418-7061, Email: jjsun@iastate.edu 


Graduation Date

December 2006

Dissertation Title

Testing Financial and Real Market Operations in Restructured Electricity Systems: Four Theoretical and Empirical Studies [Extended Abstract]

Curriculum Vitae [Download]

Primary Fields of Interests

Selected Research Work

“Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Open-Source Agent-Based Framework,” (with L. Tesfatsion), Computational Economics, 2007, to appear. This paper is an abridged version of ISU Economics Working Paper No. 06025 [Abstract] [Download]

“An Agent-Based Computational Laboratory for Wholesale Power Market Design,” (with L. Tesfatsion), Proceedings, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa, FL, forthcoming, June 2007. [Abstract] [Download]

“Open-Source Software for Power Industry Research, Teaching, and Training: A DC-OPF Illustration,” (with L. Tesfatsion), Proceedings, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa, FL, forthcoming, June 2007. [Abstract] [Download]

“U.S. Financial Transmission Rights: Theory and Practice,” Economics Working Paper No. 05008, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, November 2005.  [Abstract] [Download]

“Evaluating the Performance of Financial Transmission Rights Auction Market: Evidence from the U.S. Midwest Energy Region,” (with W. Shang), Working Paper, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, September 2006.  [Abstract] [Download]

“Kernel Smoothing Estimation of GDP Growth and Inflation Rate in Finland: A Nonparametric Approach,” Working paper, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, April 2006.  [Abstract] [Download]

 “Market Design Test Environments,” (with S. Widergren and L. Tesfatsion), Proceedings, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Montreal, June 2006.  [Abstract] [Download]

“DC Optimal Power Flow Formulation and Solution Using QuadProgJ,” (with L. Tesfatsion), Economics Working Paper No. 06014, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Revised June 2006 (under journal submission).  [Abstract] [Download] 

“An Agent-Based Computational Laboratory for Testing the Economic Reliability of Wholesale Power Market Designs,” (with D. Koesrindartoto and L. Tesfatsion), Proceedings, Vol. 1, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2005, pp. 931-936.  [Abstract] [Download]

Honors and Awards

Selected participant (among a highly competitive applicant pool) for 2006 Institute of Computational Economics (ICE06) Summer Program, jointly sponsored by University of Chicago Economics Department and Argonne National Laboratory, Program Co-Chairs: Lars Hansen, Kenneth Judd, and Jorge More, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, July 17-21, 2006.

One of three equally ranked winners for best poster presentation for 2006 Institute of Computational Economics (ICE06) Summer Program (see above entry).

First Place Award for “Boom and Bust of Technology Companies at the Turn of the 21st Century,” (with H. Hofmann, H. Wickham, D. Cook and C. Rottger), IEEE Information Visualization Contest (InfoVis), presented at 2005 InfoVis Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005.

Selected Presentations

“Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Open-Source Agent-Based Framework,” 2007 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 21-24, 2007.

“Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Open-Source Agent-Based Framework,” 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Montreal, Canada, June 14 - 16, 2007.

“Agent-Based Test Beds for Market Design,'' Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 5-7, 2007.

“Dynamic Testing of Wholesale Power Market Designs: An Agent-Based Computational Approach,'' INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-8, 2006.

“U.S. Financial Transmission Rights: Theory and Practice,'' Midwest Economics Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 24-26, 2006.

Open-Source Software

The AMES Market Package (Java): A Free-Open Source Test-Bed for the Agent-Based Modeling of Electricity Systems [AMESMarket project site]

DCOPFJ: A Free Open-Source Java Solver for DC Optimal Power Flow Problems [DCOPFJ project site]

References

Leigh Tesfatsion (advisor)
Professor of Economics and Mathematics
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1070
Tel: (515) 294-7318 (secretary)
Fax: (515) 294-0221
Email: tesfatsi@iastate.edu
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/

  

Barry Falk
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1070
Tel: (515) 294-5875
Fax: (515) 294-0221
Email: bfalk@iastate.edu
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/falk/

 

Sergio Lence
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1070
Tel: (515) 294-8960
Fax: (515) 294-6644
Email: shlence@iastate.edu
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/lence/

Heike Hofmann
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1210
Tel: (515) 294-8948
Fax: (515) 294-4040
Email: hofmann@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/˜hofmann/

 

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