Dr. Marie R. Corio

Dr. Marie R. Corio is founder and President of Applied Economic Research Co. She has provided consulting services to major corporations, industry groups, law firms and government agencies for over 30 years.  Specializing in quantitative analysis of complex issues, she has developed analytic and predictive tools for strategic planning, forecasting, litigation support, and tracking and benchmarking uses.

Her firm has been in the forefront on the issues of the adequacy of electricity supply, the impact of Clean Air Act Amendments of the cost of existing electricity supply, and the cost of building, operating and maintaining performance of power plants. 

Dr. Corio has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Power Subcommittee on the need for additional electricity capacity in the 1990s.  She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including the "MacNeill Lehrer News Hour" and the "Today Show," discussing the implications of electricity capacity shortages--particularly on consumers.

Career highlights include:  supporting a Canadian utility’s deregulatory transition by showing the impact of age and maintenance upon reliability; deriving nonparametric relationships between reliability and time vs. reliability and age, quantifying this issue for several clients; providing the Department of Energy and industry groups with analyses of the impact of environmental legislation; and the effect of revisions to the Clean Air Act on the adequacy of electricity supply.  She also assisted the Department of Energy in the development of the President's National Energy Strategy.

Dr. Corio received a B.A. and Ph.D. in economics and statistics from New York University.