AEI-BROOKINGS JOINT CENTER 2006
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 

STILL REFORMING REGULATION

Roger Noll

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

                

Roger Noll, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, will deliver the 2006 AEI-Brookings Joint Center Distinguished Lecture on why regulatory reform has stalled and why certain costly regulatory practices are spreading to the rest of the world. He will discuss how politics can block beneficial reforms of regulations that do little more than protect incumbents and prevent competition. He will also examine why so many countries ignore the costs of suppressing competition and, instead, create regulated monopolies when privatizing state-owned enterprises.


AGENDA

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
5:15 p.m-7:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. 20036

5:00 p.m. Registration

5:15 p.m.  Welcome

                  CHRISTOPHER DEMUTH, AEI

                   Introduction

             ROBERT HAHN, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies 
                   Lecture
             ROGER NOLL, Stanford University

6:30 p.m.  Wine and Cheese Reception

7:00 p.m.  Adjournment

 

For more information, please contact Molly Wells at 202.862.5903 or [email protected].

Biographies

Roger Noll is professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow emeritus in the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Dr. Noll received his B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr.Noll was a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Institute Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He also was a Guggenheim Fellow, the winner of the annual book award of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, and the winner of the Distinguished Service Award of the Public Utilities Research Center.


Dr. Noll is the author or coauthor of eleven books and over 300 essays and reviews. His primary research interests include technology policy in the United States; antitrust, regulation and privatization policies in both advanced and developing economies; the economic approach to public law, including administrative law, the judiciary, and statutory interpretation; and the economics of sports. Dr. Noll has been a member of the advisory boards of the U.S. Department of Energy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and National Science Foundation. He also has been a member of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy of the National Research Council, and the California Council on Science and Technology.