Kenneth Train, Chair
Faculty Associates
George Cluff, Lecturer in Business
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics
Lee Friedman, Professor of Public Policy
Richard Gilbert, Professor of Economics
Bronwyn Hall, Associate Professor of Economics
Theodore Keeler, Professor of Economics
Daniel McFadden, Professor of Economics
Daniel Rubinfeld, Professor of Law and Economics
Paul Ruud, Professor of Economics
Pablo Spiller, Professor of Economics
Kenneth Train, Adjunct Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Glenn Woroch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
The Center for Regulatory Policy was founded in 1993 with a threefold mission:
- to promote faculty and graduate student research in regulation
- to launch students into careers in regulation, through training and project experience
- to provide for interaction and mutual learning among people at regulated firms, government agencies, and the University.
An interdisciplinary group of faculty members serve as affiliates of the Center and work together to achieve these goals. The fields of expertise covered by faculty members include: Joseph Farrell, on the setting of standards; Lee
Friedman, on rate design and regulatory structure and procedures; Richard Gilbert, on energy regulation; Bronwyn Hall, on industrial research and innovation; Theodore Keeler, on safety and health regulation; Daniel McFadden and Paul Ruud, on econometric methods for regulatory procedures and litigation;
Daniel Rubinfeld, on the economics of legal process and regulatory federalism; Pablo Spiller, on political institutions; Kenneth Train, on rate design, introduction of competition, and regulatory mechanisms; and Glenn Woroch, on by-pass and incentives regulation.
Workshops
The Center offers workshops for people who work in industry and government. Click on the following topics for information:
Graduate Student Research Assistantships
The Center provides funding for graduate students to work with faculty members on research in regulation. The follwoing projects have been funded:
- Chris Downing, on regulation of the savings and loan industry, under Professors George Akerlof and Paul Romer.
- Eva Balslev, on the U.S. Trucking industry, under Professors Paul Ruud, Theodore Keeler, and Steven Goldman
- Elaine Watt, on energy efficiency in the auto industry, under Dr. Lorna Greening
- Steve Puller, on the long-term price elasticity of gasoline and the effects of regulatory policies, under Professor Kenneth Train
Internships
The Center has coordinated with GTE Laboratory for summer internships. Two UC Berkeley students, Erik Heitfield and Armando Levy, have won these GTE internships though the Center, beating out competitors from Harvard, U. Chicago, and MIT.
Mini-Grants
The Center has provided mini-grants to students and faculty members to cover
expenses associated with research on regulation. The projects have spanned such varied topics as costs and cross-subsidization in California hospitals, regulatory factors affecting housing conditions; risk and financial market regulation; labor supply decisions under public assistance programs; racial segregation and unemployment; subsidies for low-income housing; the effect of continuing regulation on the trucking industry; and many other topics. The following students have received mini-grants:
Michael Ash
| My Caohuy
| Harish Chand
| Gary Charness |
Lisa Cook
| Teresa Cyrus
| Sean Ennis
| Carla Ernst |
Li Gan
| Marilyn Garcia
| Kirsten Landeryou
| Armando Levy |
Mauricio Naranjo
| Gary Painter
| Steven Raphael
| Jonanthan Siegel |
Joshua Skov
| Scott Susin
| John Wald |
Grace Katagiri
Last modified: 5 December 1996