Nancy L. Rose

Economic Regulation and Its Reform: What Have We Learned? - National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report Nancy L. Rose

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Nancy L. Rose is the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics and associate department head for economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a research associate of the NBER and director of its Program on Industrial Organization. Table of Contents: Preface -- Learning from the Past: Insights for the Regulation of Economic Activity / Nancy L. Rose -- 1. Antitrust and Regulation / Dennis W. Carlton, Randal C. Picker -- 2. How Airline Markets Work ... or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry / Severin Borenstein, Nancy L. Rose -- 3. Cable Regulation in the Internet Era / Gregory S. Crawford -- 4. Regulating Competition in Wholesale Electricity Supply / Frank A. Wolak -- 5. Incentive Regulation in Theory and Practice: Electricity Distribution and Transmission Networks / Paul L. Joskow -- 6. Telecommunication Regulation: Current Approaches with the End in Sight / Jerry Hausman, J. Gregory Sidak -- 7. Regulation of the Pharmaceutical-Biotechnology Industry / Patricia M. Danzon, Eric L. Keuffel -- 8. Regulation and Deregulation of the US Banking Industry: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Future / Randall S. Kroszner, Philip E. Strahan -- 9. Retail Securities Regulation in the Aftermath of the Bubble / Eric Zitzewitz -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index. Publisher Marketing: Collects research that explores issues surrounding government economic intervention, providing an assessment of the economic effects of regulatory reforms over the past three decades and examining how these insights bear on some of today's most significant concerns in regulatory policy.

Contributor Bio:  Rose, Nancy L Nancy L. Rose is the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics and associate department head for economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a research associate of the NBER and director of its Program on Industrial Organization.