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5.12.2004
Economics for Regulators
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From May 16 to May 20, PFF will inaugurate the activities of its Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics by holding a conference (in Aspen, Colorado, naturally, home of PFF's annual Aspen Summit). Over 20 state regulators will attend to focus on the economics of regulation in network industries, primarily telecom and electricity.
Partners in the enterprise are the University of Colorado Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program and the George Mason University Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science. Faculty will include Vernon Smith of GMU, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on experimental economics, Howard Shelanski of the University of California at Berkeley, Lynn Kiesling of Northwestern, and PFF's own Ray Gifford, Randy May and Tom Lenard, plus other luminaries of the academic world.
For anyone who wants to try this at home, the agenda, reading list, and complete faculty roster are here. But one cannot duplicate the faculty presentations or interactions among attendees at home -- one must sign up for 2005 (and be a regulator).
This is the first of what will be an annual affair. Possible directions of expansion include extending the invitations to federal as well as state regulators, and adding a module on the role of intellectual property in the world of regulation.
posted by James DeLong : 5/12/2004 02:48:47 PM
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