Presenter: James Prieger
Topic: Economics and Policy of Regulation and Innovation
Time: 6:00-9:00pm, Monday, April 28th
Venue: E104
James Prieger：
JAMES E. PRIEGER is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. He is an economist specializing in regulatory economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. He has written for scholarly journals on the impact of telecommunications regulation on innovation, the impact of cost changes on industry dynamics, state and local taxation of communications providers in California, universal service in telecommunications, second-best pricing rules, bootstrapping conditional moment tests, and econometric methodology for non-randomly sampled duration data. His recent research includes whether laws banning cell phone use while driving would prevent accidents, which has been covered in media such as BusinessWeek. In another current set of papers, Prieger investigates the impact of the Americans With Disabilities Act on retail firms, which drew the notice of Forbes. He sits on the editorial board of Applied Economics Quarterly. He has consulted for major telecommunications companies on regulatory issues. He received his BA (Magna Cum Laude) from Yale University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at the University of California, Davis (1999-2006). The complete C.V. of Prof. James Prieger is available at http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/jprieger/CV.pdf.
