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.