Reg-Markets Center

Scholars
	Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. He also served as a senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers for two years. Mr. Hahn has written numerous articles and frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Yale Law Journal. He has served as a consultant to government and industry on a variety of issues involving regulation and privatization. In addition, Mr. Hahn is the co-founder of the Community Preparatory School--an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
	Robert E. Litan is co-director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and director of the Economic Studies Program and Cabot Family Chair in Economics at the Brookings Institution. At Brookings he served as a senior fellow from 1984 to 1993 and as director of two research centers from 1987 to 1993. Mr. Litan has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous books and articles on government policies affecting financial institutions, regulatory and legal issues, international trade, and the economy in general. From 1995 to 1996, he was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, and from 1993 to 1995 he served as deputy assistant attorney general, in charge of civil antitrust litigation and regulatory issues, at the Department of Justice. From 1977 to 1979, he was the regulatory and legal staff specialist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Litan has also consulted for numerous organizations, public and private, and testified as an expert witness in a variety of legal and regulatory proceedings.
	Robert Crandall is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he has worked since 1978. Mr. Crandall was the former deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability during the Ford and Carter administrations. He was also a former faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the George Washington University. He has been a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Antitrust Division of the Federal Trade Commission, and the Treasury Department. His interests include industrial organization, antitrust policy, regulation, the auto industry, competitiveness, deregulation, and environmental policy. He has published widely, and his articles have appeared in Regulation, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the American Economic Review.
	Christopher DeMuth is president of the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to AEI in 1986, he was managing director of Lexecon, Inc., an economics consulting firm, from 1984 to 1986; editor and publisher of Regulation magazine from 1986 to 1987; administrator for regulatory affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1984. Previously, he served as lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and as director of the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation and as a lawyer in private practice. His articles on government regulation and other subjects have appeared in the Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The American Enterprise, and elsewhere.
	Thomas Hazlett is a resident scholar at AEI. He is also a senior research associate of the Columbia Institute for Tele-information and a senior adviser to Analysis Group/Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984 and was a professor and director of the program on telecommunications policy at the University of California at Davis, coming to AEI in 1998. He also served as a chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission 1991-1992. He has written for many general-interest periodicals and has been a columnist for Reason magazine and ForbesASAP. His research has been published in numerous academic journals and law reviews, and he has provided expert testimony before courts, congressional committees, foreign governments, the Department of Commerce, the Congressional Budget Office, the General Accounting Office, and the FCC.
	Randall Lutter is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes about regulatory policies to protect health, safety, and especially the environment. He served as senior economist for environment and regulation on the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1998 and as staff economist for regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget from 1991 to 1997. He also taught economics and policy at the School of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at American University. His research has appeared in Science, Journal of Political Economy, and Environmental Science & Technology, and he has written popular articles for the Los Angeles Times and Regulation.
	Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where he has worked since 1984. He specializes in analysis of industrial organization, regulation, and transportation. Mr. Winston is co-editor of the annual microeconomics edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Before receiving his fellowship at Brookings, he was associate professor in the transportation systems division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Civil Engineering. He is the author of numerous books and articles that have appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.