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Timothy J. Brennan
Title: Senior Fellow
Phone: 202-328-5084
E-mail: brennan@rff.org


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Biography
Brennan's research interests include electricity restructuring; law and economics; space economics and policy; and technology policy, regulation, and innovation.

Brennan coauthored Alternating Currents: Electricity and Public Policy, which looks at the complex economic and regulatory policy issues raised by the restructuring of the electricity industry.

Brennan is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. He also has taught at George Washington University and served as an economist for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1996 to 1997, Brennan served as a senior economist for the Clinton administration's Council of Economic Advisers, where he advised on regulation, industrial organization, and antitrust matters.  During 2003-05, he served as a staff consultant to the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission.

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Education
Ph.D. in economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1978.
M.A. in mathematics and economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1976.
B.A. in mathematics, University of Maryland, 1973.
 
Professional Experience
  • Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Quality of the Environment Division, 1997 - present.
  • Lecturer, Microeconomics Refresher Course, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1999.
  • Senior Economist for Industrial Organization and Regulation, Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic Advisers, 1996 - 1997.
  • Lecturer, Georgetown Univer­sity, Washington Campus Summer MBA Program, "Economic Regulation," Washington, D.C., 1996.
  • Gilbert White Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1995.
  • Lecturer, In­ternational Law Institute, "Regulatory Economics and Telecommunications Policy in Developing Market Economies," Washington, D.C., 1994.
  • Lecturer, United States Telecommunications Training Institute, Washington, D.C., 1989 - 1994.
  • Lecturer and Panelist, Annenberg Washington Program Communications Faculty Work­shops, 1988 - 1990, 1993.
  • Associate Professor of Public Policy, George Washington University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, "Communication, and Eco­nomics," 1986 - 1989.
  • Economist, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, 1978 - 1986.
  • Lecturer, U.S. Department of Justice, "Introductory and Intermediate Microeconomics for Attorneys in the Antitrust Division," Spring 1981 - Spring 1982.
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Wis­consin, Madison, "Graduate Microeconomic Theory," Spring, 1977.
  • Co-teacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Institutional Economics," Spring, 1977.
  • Leader, Uni­versity of Wisconsin, Madison, "Seminar on Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's The Entropy Law and The Economic Process," Summer, 1977.
  • Research Assistant in Education and Job Migration, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty, August, 1975 - August, 1976.
  • Programmer and Research Assistant in Plasma Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, October, 1970 - Au­gust, 1974.
 
Journal Articles
Should the Flamingo Fly? Using Competition Law to Limit the Scope of Postal Monopolies
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 2005 | forthcoming
Green Preferences as Regulatory Policy Instrument
Timothy J. Brennan
Ecological Economics | 2005 | forthcoming
'Vertical Market Power' as Oxymoron: Horizontal Approaches to Vertical Antitrust
Timothy J. Brennan
George Mason Law Review | 2005 | forthcoming
Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Polices, Potholes and Prospects
Timothy Brennan, Karen Palmer, and Salvador Martinez
Environmental and Resource Economics | June 2002 | Vol. 22, Nos. 1 and 2 | pp. 99-132 | Related Discussion Paper 01-62
The California Crisis: Questioning The Conventional "Wisdom"
Timothy J. Brennan
Regulation | Fall 2001 | pp. 63-69
Vertical Excuses for Horizontal Practices: Should There Be Any Per Se Rules?
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 2000 | Vol. 45 | pp. 467-490
Programmi DSM e concorrenza elettrica negli Stati Uniti (DSM programs and electricity competition in the United States)
Timothy J. Brennan
Energia | 2000 | Vol. 21, No. 1 | pp. 32-42
The Spectrum as the Commons: Today's Vision, Not Tomorrow's Prescription
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Law and Economics | 1998 | Vol. 41 | pp. 791-803
Technology and Coordination: Antitrust Implications of Remote Sensing Satellites
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | Summer 1997 | Vol. 42 | pp. 477-502
Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Contracts
Timothy Brennan and James Boyd
Journal of Regulatory Economics | 1997 | Vol. 11, No. 1 | pp. 41-54
Industry Parallel Interconnection Agreements
Timothy J. Brennan
Information Economics and Policy | 1997 | Vol. 9 | pp. 133-149
Making Sense of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Timothy J. Brennan
Industrial and Corporate Change | 1996 | Vol. 5 | pp. 941-961
MethodologyAbstract Philosophy or Criticism of Diminishing Returns
Timothy J. Brennan
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology | 1996 | Vol. 14 | pp. 329-342
Is Cost-of-Service Regulation Worth The Cost?
Timothy J. Brennan
International Journal of the Economics of Business | 1996 | Vol. 3, No. 1 | pp. 25-42
Symposium: Recent Competition Issues in Telecommunications
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 1995 | Vol. 40, No. 3
(Guest editor of this issue.)
Remote Sensing Satellites and Privacy: A Framework for Policy Assessment
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy Brennan
Law, Computers, and Artificial Intelligence | 1995 | Vol. 4, No. 3 | pp. 233-248
Does the Theory Behind U.S. v. AT&T Still Apply Today?
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 1995 | Vol. 40, No. 3 | pp. 455-482
Markets, Information, and Benevolence
Timothy J. Brennan
Economics and Philosophy, | 1994 | Vol. 10, No. 2 | pp. 151-168
Talking to One's Selves: The Social Science of Jon Elster
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Communication | 1994 | Vol. 44, No. 1 | pp. 73-81
Economic Theory in Industrial Policy: Lessons From U.S. v. AT&T
Timothy J. Brennan
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology | 1994 | Vol. 11 | pp. 49-72
Comparing the Costs and Benefits of Diversification by Regulated Firms
Timothy J. Brennan and Karen L. Palmer
Journal of Regulatory Economics | 1994 | Vol. 6, No. 2 | pp. 115-136
Copyright, Property, and the Right to Deny
Timothy J. Brennan
Chicago-Kent Law Review | 1993 | Vol. 68, No. 2 | pp. 675-714
The Futility of Multiple Utility
Timothy J. Brennan
Economics and Philosophy | 1993 | Vol. 9, No. 1 | pp. 155-164
Content, Controversy, and Control: Politics and the Evolution of Antitrust Enforcement
Timothy J. Brennan
Law and Policy | 1992 | Vol. 14, No. 1 | pp. 107-122
Refusing to Cooperate with Competitors: A Theory of Boycotts
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Law and Economics | 1992 | Vol. 35, No. 2 | pp. 247-264
Integrating Communications Theory into Media Policy: An Economic Perspective
Timothy J. Brennan
Telecommunications Policy | 1992 | Vol. 16, No. 6 | pp. 460-474
Rational Ignorance: The Strategic Economics of Military Censorship
Timothy J. Brennan
Southern Economic Journal | 1992 | Vol. 58, No. 4 | pp. 966-974
Depreciation, Investor Compensation, and Welfare under Rate-of-Return Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan
Review of Industrial Organization | 1991 | Vol. 6, No. 1 | pp. 73-87
Voluntary Exchange and Economic Claims
Timothy J. Brennan
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology | 1990 | Vol. 7 | pp. 105-124
Vertical Integration, Monopoly, and the First Amendment
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Media Economics | 1990 | Vol. 3, No. 1 | pp. 57-76
Cross-Subsidization and Cost Misallocation by Regulated Monopolists
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Regulatory Economics | 1990 | Vol. 2, No. 1 | pp. 37-51
Understanding "Raising Rivals" Costs: Reply
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 1989 | Vol. 34, No. 4 | pp. 909-918
A Methodological Assessment of Multiple Utility Frameworks
Timothy J. Brennan
Economics and Philosophy | 1989 | Vol. 5, No. 2 | pp. 189-208
The "Fairness Doctrine" as Public Policy
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media | 1989 | Vol. 33, No. 4 | pp. 419-440
Exclusive Dealing, Limiting Outside Activity, and Conflict of Interest
Timothy J. Brennan
Southern Economic Journal | 1989 | Vol. 56, No. 2 | pp. 323-335
Divestiture Policy Considerations in an Information Services World
Timothy J. Brennan
Telecommunications Policy | 1989 | Vol. 13, No. 3 | pp. 243-254
Regulating by "Capping" Prices
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Regulatory Economics | 1989 | Vol. 1, No. 2 | pp. 133-147
Exclusive Dealing in General Business Practice
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Business Strategies | 1988 | Vol. 5, No. 2 | pp. 53-60
Understanding "Raising Rivals" Costs
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 1988 | Vol. 33, No. 1 | pp. 95-113
An Economic Look at Taxing Home Audio Taping
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media | 1988 | Vol. 32, No. 1 | pp. 89-103
Rights, Market Failure, and Rent Control: A Comment on Radin
Timothy J. Brennan
Philosophy and Public Affairs | 1988 | Vol. 17, No. 1 | pp. 66-79
Academic Disciplines and Representative Advocacy
Timothy J. Brennan
Business and Professional Ethics Journal | 1987 | Vol. 6, No. 1 | pp. 32-55
Why Regulated Firms Should Be Kept Out Of Unregulated Markets: Understanding the Divestiture in U.S. v. AT&T
Timothy J. Brennan
Antitrust Bulletin | 1987 | Vol. 32, No. 3 | pp. 741-793
Joint Production and Monopoly Extension Through Tying
Timothy J. Brennan and Sheldon Kimmel
Southern Economic Journal | 1986 | Vol. 53, No. 2 | pp. 490-501
Harper & Row v. The Nation: Copyrightability and Fair Use
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. | 1986 | Vol. 33, No. 4 | pp. 368-389
Is Economics Methodologically Special?
Timothy J. Brennan
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology | 1984 | Vol. 2 | pp. 127-140
Local Government Action and Antitrust Policy: An Economic Analysis
Timothy J. Brennan
Fordham Urban Law Journal | 1984 | Vol. 12, No. 3 | pp. 405-436
Economic Efficiency and Broadcast Content Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan
Federal Communications Law Journal | 1983 | Vol. 35, No. 2 | pp. 117-138
Mistaken Elasticities and Misleading Rules
Timothy J. Brennan
Harvard Law Review | 1982 | Vol. 95, No. 8 | pp. 1849-1856
Explanation and Value in Economics
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Issues | 1979 | Vol. 13, No. 4 | pp. 911-932
 
Books, Chapters, and Reports
Fair Use as Policy Instrument
Timothy J. Brennan
The Economics of Copyright: Developments in Research and Analysis, Volume 2 | Wendy Gordon, Lisa Takeyama, and Ruth Towse | Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar | 2005
forthcoming
Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition? The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in Electricity
Timothy J. Brennan
The Challenge of Electricity Restructuring | Andrew N. Kleit, editor | Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield | 2005
forthcoming
Making Electricity Markets Competitive: How Fast and by Whom?
Timothy J. Brennan
New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President | Richard D. Morgenstern and Paul R. Portney, eds. | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 7
Regulation and Competition as Complements
Timothy J. Brennan
Obtaining the Best from Regulation and Competition | Michael Crew and Menahem Spiegel, editors | Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Press | 2004
pp. 1-20
Opening Electricity Markets: Lessons from the U.S. Experience
Timothy J. Brennan
Nuebestimmung staatlicher Aufgaben im Stromhandel (Redefining the role of government in electricity trading) | Eberhard Bohne, editor | Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot | 2003
The FCC and Policy Federalism: Broadband Internet Access Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan
International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume III | Gary Madden and Scott Savage, editors | Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar | 2003
pp. 173-199
Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and Public Policy
Timothy J. Brennan, Karen L. Palmer, and Salvador A. Martinez
RFF Press | 2002
The California Electricity Experience, 2000-2001: Education or Diversion?
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Report | October 2001 | Abstract
Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy J. Brennan
Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health and Safety | Paul Fishbeck and Scott Farrow, eds. | RFF Press | 2001
Private Eyes in the Sky: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology for Enforcing Environmental Regulation
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy J. Brennan
Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety | Paul S. Fischbeck and R. Scott Farrow, eds. | RFF Press | 2001 | Chapter 14
Promoting Telephone Competition: A Simpler Way?
Timothy J. Brennan
Competition, Regulation, and Convergence: Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research | S. Gillete and I. Vogelsang, eds. | Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum | 1999
American Democratic Institutions and Social Values
Timothy J. Brennan
Democracy, Social Values, and Public Policy | M. Carrow, R.P. Churchill, and J. Cordes, eds. | Westport, CT: Greenwood Press | 1998
Comparing "Stranded Costs" Arguments in Telecommunications and Electricity
Timothy J. Brennan
Regulation Under Increasing Competition | M. Crew and P. Kleindorfer, eds. | Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Press | 1998
Die ökonomische Analyse des Rechts aus Philosopher Sicht: Gesellschaftspolitsche Ziele im Kontext des Rechts [A Philosophical Assessment of 'Law and Economics': Policy Norms and Judicial Contexts]
Timothy J. Brennan
Effiziente Verhaltenssteuerung und Kooperation im Zivilrecht | C. Ott and H. Bernd-Schäfer, eds. | Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck | 1997
Implications of Remote Sensing Technology
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | March 1996
A Shock to the System: Restructuring America's Electricity Industry
Timothy J. Brennan, Karen L. Palmer, Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick, Vito Stagliano, and Dallas Burtraw
RFF Press | 1996
Does the Theory Behind U.S. v. AT&T Still Apply today?
Timothy J. Brennan
The Internet and Telecommunications Policy: Selected Papers from the 1995 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference | G. Brock and G. Rosston, eds. | New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum | 1996
Additional Considerations in the Electricity Competition Debate
Timothy J. Brennan
National Research Council, Competition in the Electricity Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities and Risks for Facility Operators | Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press | 1996
Balancing Present Costs and Future Benefits
Timothy J. Brennan
National Research Council, Financing Tomorrow's Infrastructure: Challenges and Issues | Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press | 1996
Game Theory and the First Amendment: Strategic Implications of Freedom of the Press
Timothy J. Brennan
Toward a Competitive Telecommunication Industry: Selected Papers from the 1994 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference | G. Brock, ed. | New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum | 1995
A Methodological Assessment of Multiple Utility Frameworks
Timothy J. Brennan
The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics | B. Caldwell, ed. | Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. | 1993
Monopolies: Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan
Magill's Survey of Social Science: Economics | Pasadena, CA: Salem Press | 1991
Regulating by "Capping" Prices
Timothy J. Brennan
Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications | M. Einhorn, ed. | Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Press | 1991
Mergers
Timothy J. Brennan
Magill's Survey of Social Science: Economics | Pasadena, CA: Salem Press | 1991
The Trouble With Norms
Timothy J. Brennan
Social Norms and Economic Institutions | K. Koford and J. Miller, eds. | Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press | 1991
Issues of International Trade
Timothy J. Brennan
After the Break-Up: Assessing the New Post-AT&T Divestiture Era | B. Cole, ed. | New York, NY: Columbia University Press | 1991
Entry and Welfare Loss in Regulated Industries
Timothy J. Brennan
Competition and the Regulation of Utilities | M. Crew, ed. | Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers | 1990
Raising Rivals "Costs"Advice for the Practitioner
Timothy J. Brennan
Manual on the Economics of Antitrust Law | : | 1988
Mistaken Elasticities and Misleading Rules
Timothy J. Brennan
Economic Analysis and Antitrust Law | T. Calvani and J. Siegfried, eds. | Boston, MA: Little Brown | 1988
 
Short Articles, Issue Briefs, and Other Publications
Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes?
Timothy J. Brennan
Resources | Fall/Winter 2008 (167)
Public Use and Just Compensation: How and When Does Economic Analysis Apply?
Timothy J. Brennan
Resources | Fall 2005 (159)
An Academic's Guide to the Way Washington Really Works
Timothy J. Brennan
Chronicle of Higher Education | January 12, 2001 | B11
More Power Creates Puzzle
Timothy J. Brennan and Joseph Doucet
Edmonton Journal | November 23, 2001
Drawing Lessons from the California Power Crisis
Timothy J. Brennan
Resources | Summer 2001 (144)
Economists as Judicial Activists
Timothy J. Brennan
Policy Matters | August 2000 | 00-10
Who Lost Russia
Timothy J. Brennan
New York Times Magazine | (letter) | September 5, 1999
Portland Should Stick to Its Guns in Cable Fight
Timothy J. Brennan
The Oregonian | (op-ed.) | July 24, 1999
Not Enough Anarchy in the U.K.
Timothy J. Brennan and Karen Palmer
Regulation | (letter to the editor) | Winter 1998 | Vol. 21, No. 2
Monopoly Money
Timothy J. Brennan
The Economist | (letter) | May 30, 1998 | Vol. 347, No. 8070
Commercialization without NASA
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy Brennan
Space News | (op-ed.) | February 16-22, 1998 | Vol. 9, No. 7 | p. 29
Book review of "Quality and Reliability of Telecommunications Infrastructure," William Lehr, ed.
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media | 1997 | Vol. 41, No. 1
Book review of "American Regulatory Federalism and Telecommunications Infrastructure," Paul Teske, ed.
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media | 1997 | Vol. 41, No. 1
Book review of "Regulating Broadcast Programming" by Thomas G. Krattenmaker and Lucas A. Powe, Jr.
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Literature | 1995 | Vol. 33, No. 3 | pp. 1381-1382
Book review of "Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth" by Gerald W. Scully
Timothy J. Brennan
Forum for Social Economics | 1993 | Vol. 22, No. 2 | pp. 71-75
Market Failure and Public Policy Toward Telecommunications Infrastructures
Timothy J. Brennan
Report to the Office of Technology Assessment | 1993
Book review of "Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency, New Perspectives on Socio-Economics," Richard M. Coughlin, ed.
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Issues | 1992 | Vol. 26, No. 4 | pp. 1271-1275
Book review of "Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy" by Thomas McGarity
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Issues | 1992 | Vol. 26, No. 3 | pp. 963-966
Should Cable Be a Federal Case
Timothy J. Brennan
Broadcasting | March 19, 1990 | Vol. 118, No. 12 | p. 24
Book review of "Media Freedom and Accountability" by Everette Dennis, Donald Gillmor and Theodore Glasser
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media | 1990 | Vol. 34, No. 4 | pp. 502-503
Book review of "Economics and Power" by Randall Bartlett
Timothy J. Brennan
Southern Economic Journal | 1990 | Vol. 57, No. 2 | pp. 554-555
Book review of "The Reconstruction of Economics" by Alan Gruchy
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Literature | 1988 | Vol. 26, No. 4 | pp. 1751-1753
Book review of "The Economics of Telecommunications" by John Wenders
Timothy J. Brennan
Information Economics and Policy | 1988 | Vol. 3, No. 3 | pp. 268-269
It Pays to Be Well Connected
Timothy J. Brennan
Wall Street Journal | (letter) | July 9, 1987
Limits of the Marketplace Model
Timothy J. Brennan
Broadcasting | October 8, 1984 | Vol. 107, No. 15 | p. 30
Book review of "Reasoning and Method in Economics" by I. M. T. Stewart
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Issues | 1981 | Vol. 15, No. 3 | pp. 796-799
Toward a Humanist Reconstruction of Economic Science: Comment
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Economic Issues | 1980 | Vol. 14, No. 4 | pp. 1019-1025
Comment: The Utility of Being Hanged on the Gallows
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics | 1980 | Vol. 3, No. 1 | pp. 129-132
Comment: On Not Quantifying the Quantifiable
Timothy J. Brennan
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics | 1979 | Vol. 2, No. 2 | pp. 267-270
 
Discussion Papers and Working Papers
Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes?
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 07-46 | November 2007 | Abstract
Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 05-51 | November 2005 | Abstract
Alleged Transmission Undersupply: Is Restructuring the Cure or the Cause?
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 05-50 | October 2005 | Abstract
Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 03-39 | August 2003 | Abstract
State and Federal Roles in Facilitating Electricity Competition: Legal and Economic Perspectives in the Electricity Sector
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 03-24 | April 2003 | Abstract
Market Failures in Real-Time Metering: A Theoretical Look
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 02-53 | October 2002 | Abstract
Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition? The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in Electricity
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 02-50 | October 2002 | Abstract
"Vertical Market Power" as Oxymoron: Getting Convergence Mergers Right
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 01-39 | August 2001 | Abstract
'Green' Preferences as Regulatory Policy
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 01-01 | May 2001 | Abstract
Policy, Federalism, and Regulating Broadband Internet Access
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 01-02 | March 2001 | Abstract
The Economics of Competition Policy: Recent Developments and Cautionary Notes in Antitrust and Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 00-07 | January 2000 | Abstract
Do Lower Prices For Polluting Goods Make Environmental Externalities Worse?
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 99-40 | May 1999 | Abstract
Demand-Side Management Programs Under Retail Electricity Competition
Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 99-02 | October 1998 | Abstract
Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology
Molly K. Macauley and Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 98-33 | May 1998 | Abstract
Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Contracts
Timothy J. Brennan and James W. Boyd
RFF Discussion Paper 97-02 | October 1996 | Abstract
Pluralism and Regulatory Failure: When Should Takings Trigger Compensation?
James W. Boyd and Timothy J. Brennan
RFF Discussion Paper 96-09 | January 1996 | Abstract
Making Sense of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Timothy J. Brennan
Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy Working Paper CRTP-34 | 1996
Political Economy and the Efficiency of Compensation for Takings
Timothy J. Brennan and James W. Boyd
RFF Discussion Paper 95-28 | June 1995 | Abstract
An electronic version of this report is not available.
Is Cost-of-Service Regulation Worth the Cost?
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Discussion Paper 93-9 | 1993
(Presented at the 13th Annual Rutgers University Conference/Advanced Workshop in Regulation and Public Utility Economics, Newport, RI, May 25, 1994.)
Refusal to Cooperate with Competitors: A Theory of Horizontal Boycotts
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Discussion Paper 89-1 | 1989
Economic Theory in Industrial Policy: Lessons From U.S. v. AT&T
Timothy J. Brennan
George Washington University, Graduate Institute for Policy Education and Research Working Paper 1989-1 | 1989
Regulating by "Capping" Prices
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Discussion Paper 88-11 | 1988
(Presented at Bell Labs and before the International Telecommunications Society, Cambridge, MA.)
Moral Rights, Public Policy Debate, and Right Holder Inalienability
Timothy J. Brennan
George Washington University, Graduate Institute for Policy Education and Research Working Paper 1988-6 | 1988
The "Fairness Doctrine" in Broadcasting: Philosophical and Economic Perspectives
Timothy J. Brennan
George Washington University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper D-8709 | 1987
Cross-Subsidization and Discrimination by Regulated Monopolists
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Discussion Paper 87-2 | 1987
(Presented at Southern Economic Association meetings, November 23, 1987.)
Capping "Average" Prices of Regulated Multiproduct Firms
Timothy J. Brennan
George Washington University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper D-8718 | 1987
(On file, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), CC Docket 87-313: "Policy and Rules Concerning Rates for Dominant Carriers.")
Liability Rules and Quality Choice: Are There Too Many BMWs on The Road?
Timothy J. Brennan
George Washington University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper D-8704 | 1987
Taxing Home Audio Taping
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Economic Analysis Group Discussion Paper 86-6 | 1986
 
Selected Presentations
Challenges in Deregulating Electricity: Drawing the Right Lessons from California
Timothy J. Brennan
EPCOR Distinguished Lecture | University of Alberta, School of Business, Center for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | October 4, 2001
"Vertical Market Power" As Oxymoron: Getting Convergence Mergers Right
Timothy J. Brennan
13th Western Conference in Advanced Regulatory Economics | Rutgers University Center For Research in Regulated Industries | San Diego, CA | June 28, 2001
To Squeeze or Not To Squeeze: Why Put Vertical Claims Into Horizontal Boxes
Timothy J. Brennan
Panel: "Raising Rivals" Costs: Should the Government Be Concerned? | Association for the Bar of the City of New York | New York, NY | April 19, 2001
Competition Bureau, Industry Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, December 6, 2001.
Correcting Abuses of Dominance: Controlling Conduct and Altering Structure
Timothy J. Brennan
Symposium: Pyrrhic Victories: Reexamining the Effectiveness of Antitrust Remedies | George Washington University Law School | Washington, D.C. | March 23, 2001
(Principal speaker)
U.S. Electricity Competition, 2000-01: Background and Lessons
Timothy J. Brennan
Efficiency and Fairness in the Competitive Economy | Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs | Washington, D.C. | March 19, 2001
Learning in Retirement Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April 24, 2001. U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership, Washington, D.C. September 26, 2001.
The California Electricity Experience, 2000-01: Education or Diversion?
Timothy J. Brennan
McGee Lecture in Public Policy | Vanderbilt University, Owen School of Business | Nashville, TN | March 1, 2001
20th Annual Conference in Advanced Regulatory Economics, Rutgers University Center For Research in Regulated Industries, Tamiment, PA, May 24, 2001.
Implementing Electricity Competition: What Can We Learn From California?
Timothy J. Brennan
City University of New York, Baruch College, School of Public Affairs | New York, NY | February 9, 2001
Traditional Policy Analysis and the New Economy
Timothy J. Brennan
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management | Seattle, WA | November 2, 2000
Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Background, Issues, Controversies, and Assessment
Timothy J. Brennan
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economics | University Park, PA | October 27, 2000
Convergence Mergers as Horizontal Mergers: Why and How
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration | Washington, D.C. | October 24, 2000
Policy Federalism and Regulating Broadband Internet Access
Timothy J. Brennan
13th Western Conference in Advanced Regulatory Economics | Rutgers University Center For Research in Regulated Industries | Monterey, CA | July 7, 2000
International Communications Forecasting Conference, Seattle, WA, September 28, 2000.
Green Preferences as Environmental Policy
Timothy J. Brennan
19th Eastern Conference in Advanced Regulatory Economics | Rutgers University Center For Research in Regulated Industries | Bolton Landing, NY | May 25, 2000
Do Easy Cases Make Bad Law? Antitrust Innovation or Missed Opportunities in U.S. v. Microsoft
Timothy J. Brennan
Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | March 9, 2000
University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 18, 2000. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration, Washington, D.C., May 9, 2000. Economists, Inc., Washington, D.C., July 25, 2000. International Association of Energy Economists, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 15, 2000. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Washington, D.C., October 4, 2000. Public Policy Workshop, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., October 18, 2000. Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., February 7, 2001. American Bar Association Antitrust Section, Economics and Computer Industry Committees, Washington, D.C., February 21, 2001. Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics, Nashville, TN, March 2, 2001. West Virginia University, Department of Economics, Morgantown, WV, April 6, 2001. George Mason University, Learning in Retirement Institute, Fairfax, VA, September 25, 2001. University of Alberta, School of Business, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 5, 2001. Baruch College, School of Public Affairs, New York, NY, November 9, 2001. Industry Canada, Competition Bureau, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 6, 2001.
Implementing Electricity Competition: Policy Problems to Solve
Timothy J. Brennan
Efficiency and Fairness in the Competitive Economy Program | Brookings Institution, Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs | Washington, D.C. | March 7, 2000
Bonneville Power Administration Washington Program, Resources for the Future, Washington D.C., June 19, 2000.
Antitrust Policy: Theoretical Advances and Policy Cycles
Timothy J. Brennan
The World Bank | Washington, D.C. | November 17, 1999
Price Regulation and Privatization: The Case of Chile
Timothy J. Brennan
The World Bank | Washington, D.C. | November 12, 1999
Price Regulation: Received Insights and Recent Advances
Timothy J. Brennan
The World Bank | Washington, D.C. | November 12, 1999
Do Lower Prices for Polluting Goods Make Environmental Externalities Worse?
Timothy J. Brennan
12th Western Conference in Advanced Regulatory Economics | Rutgers University Center For Research in Regulated Industries | San Diego, CA | July 8, 1999
Current Controversies: The Who, What, When and Why of Electricity Restructuring
Timothy J. Brennan
Electricity Deregulation Symposium | Middle Tennessee State University | Murfreesboro, TN | March 30, 1999
Demand-Side Management Programs Under Retail Electricity Competition
Timothy J. Brennan
Private Participation in Infrastructure Group | The World Bank | Washington, D.C. | March 25, 1999
Department of Energy (DOE), Electricity Working Group, Washington, D.C., March 16, 1999. POWER Conference, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley, CA, March 5, 1999. 11th Western Conference, Rutgers University Center For Research in Regulated Industries, Monterey, CA, July 10, 1998.
Promoting Telephone Competition: A Simpler Way?
Timothy J. Brennan
City University of New York, Baruch College, School of Public Affairs | New York, NY | February 8, 1999
George Mason University, Center for the Study of Public Choice, Fairfax, VA, November 10, 1998. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Washington, D.C., November 4, 1998. 26th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Alexandria, VA, October 4, 1998.
Vertical Excuses for Horizontal Practices: Should There Be Any Per Se Antitrust Rules?
Timothy J. Brennan
American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting | AEA | New York, NY | January 5, 1999
Deregulatory Policy in Telecommunications: Quandary or Oxymoron?
Timothy J. Brennan
Cato Institute | Washington, D.C. | November 5, 1998
Critical Issues in Electricity Restructuring: Lessons and Policy Implications of Emerging Markets in New England and Elsewhere
Timothy J. Brennan
Alliance for Competitive Electricity | U.S. Capitol | Washington, D.C. | July 27, 1998
Privatization Scenarios and Policy Issues
Timothy J. Brennan
National Research Council, Helium Reserve Committee | Washington, D.C. | July 6, 1998
Looking Forward: The FCC and the Information Economy
Timothy J. Brennan
Regulation: Principles, Practice, and Opportunities for Reform | George Mason University | Washington, D.C. | June 19, 1998
Transcript available at http://www.gmu.edu/jbc. (Panelist with FCC Commissioner H. Furchtgott-Roth and P. Pitsch for Session Eight of "Regulation: Principles, Practice, and Opportunities for Reform" held at Longworth House Office Building.)
The Clinton Administration's Competitive Electricity Competition Plan
Timothy J. Brennan
University of Calgary | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | May 8, 1998
Lessons of Governance Learned at the Council of Economic Advisers
Timothy J. Brennan
University of Calgary, Department of Economics | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | May 8, 1998
George Mason University, Center for Public Choice, Fairfax, VA, October 28, 1997. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Economics, Catonsville, MD, October 6, 1997.
Electricity: The Big Policy Shifts
Timothy J. Brennan
University of Maryland, Knight Center for Specialized Journalism | College Park, MD | February 16, 1998
Antitrust and Regulation: The Interface in U.S. Telecommunications
Timothy J. Brennan
International Telecommunications Society | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | June 16, 1997
The Stranded Cost Debate in U.S. Electricity Deregulation
Timothy J. Brennan
Van Horne Institute | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | June 13, 1997
Electricity Restructuring and the U.S. Antitrust Laws
Timothy J. Brennan
TransAlta Corporation | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | June 13, 1997
Innovation Data for Public Policy
Timothy J. Brennan
National Research Council Workshop on Industrial Research and Innovation Indicators for Public Policy | National Academy of Sciences | Washington, D.C. | February 28, 1997
RBOC Entry into Long Distance Markets: Questions to Resolve
Timothy J. Brennan
Federal Communications Commission | Washington, D.C. | July 23, 1996
A Philosophical Assessment of "Law and Economics": Policy Norms and Judicial Contexts
Timothy J. Brennan
Fünftes Travemünder Symposium zur Ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts | Travemünde, Germany | March 30, 1996
The Information Infrastructure Task Force White Paper: An Economic Perspective
Timothy J. Brennan
Conference on Property and Commons in the Age of Information | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Blacksburg, VA | March 16, 1996
Technology and Coordination: Antitrust Implications of Remote Sensing Satellites
Timothy J. Brennan
Symposium: High Technology, Antitrust, and the Regulation of Competition | Harvard Law School | Cambridge, MA | March 9, 1996
Regulated Firms in Unregulated Markets
Timothy J. Brennan
Presented before Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications | Washington, D.C. | November 15, 1995
What's "New" In Industrial Organization?
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) | Annapolis, MD | September 14, 1995
ACCORD: An Internet Testbed Community for Coordinating Digital Technology and Academic Resource Development
Timothy J. Brennan and Mary Keeler
Interoperability and the Economics of Information Infrastructure Workshop | Freedom Forum | Rosslyn, VA | July 6, 1995
From Here to Eternity or Gone With the Wind: Does the Theory Behind U.S. v. AT&T Still Apply Today?
Timothy J. Brennan
14th Annual Eastern Workshop in Advanced Regulatory Economics | Newport, RI | May 26, 1995
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Washington, D.C., August 9, 1995. Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomon's Island, MD, October 1, 1995. Industry Canada-Bureau of Competition Policy, Aylmer, Quebec, Canada, November 17, 1995. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Office of General Counsel-Competition Division, November 29, 1995.
Market Failure and Policy Failure
Timothy J. Brennan
U.S. Office of Technology Assessment | Washington, D.C. | February 15, 1995
The Economics of Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan
Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector | Washington, D.C. | September 1, 1994
(Presentation to a delegation from the Russian Duma and State Committee for Anti-Monopoly Policy)
U.S. v. AT&T
Timothy J. Brennan
Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector | Washington, D.C. | September 1, 1994
(Presentation to a delegation from the Russian Duma and State Committee for Anti-Monopoly Policy)
Game Theory and the First Amendment: Strategic Implications of Freedom of the Press
Timothy J. Brennan
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy | Cambridge, MA | March 14, 1994
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomon's Island, MD, October 2, 1994.
Two Kinds of Commensurability
Timothy J. Brennan
American Economic Association/Association for Social Economics | Boston, MA | January 3, 1994
Market Competition: An Economic Analysis
Timothy J. Brennan
RBOC Regulatory Relief: Strategic Positioning for the Inevitable | Telestrategies, Inc. | Rosslyn, VA | September 2, 1993
The Economics of Regulation in Emerging Market Economies
Timothy J. Brennan
Seminar on Microeconomics: Regulation, Structure, and Pricing Decisions of Natural Monopolies | The World Bank Economic Development Institute/U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) | Vienna, Austria | July 5, 1993
Looking at Privatization
Timothy J. Brennan
Association of School Business Officials | Cockeysville, MD | January 1, 1992
Discrimination, in Theory, by Diversified Regulated Firms
Timothy J. Brennan
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference | Solomon's Island, MD | January 1, 1992
Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, November 18, 1995.
Comment: The Filière Électronique and Civil Society
Timothy J. Brennan
Columbia University, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information | New York, NY | January 1, 1992
First Amendment Rights and Property Rights
Timothy J. Brennan
University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication | Los Angeles, CA | October 31, 1991
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomon's Island, MD, 1992.
Whither the Tunney Act: Remarks on Judge Greene's Ruling to Lift the Line-of-Business Restriction on BOC Offering of Information Services
Timothy J. Brennan
Columbia University, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information | New York, NY | January 1, 1991
Markets, Information, and Virtue
Timothy J. Brennan
Western Social Science Association (WSSA) Meetings | WSSA | Sparks, NV | January 1, 1991
Economic Perspectives on the First Amendment
Timothy J. Brennan
Freedom of Expression Past, Present and Future | The College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wyeth School of Law | Williamsburg, VA | January 1, 1991
Social Moral Hazard: Technology, Paternalism, and Choice
Timothy J. Brennan
George Mason University, Department of Economics | Fairfax, VA | January 1, 1990
Rights as Inalienable
Timothy J. Brennan
University of Maryland School of Law | Baltimore, MD | January 1, 1990
Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., 1990.
 
Awards
  • McGee Lecturer in Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, March 2000.
  • Who's Who in the East, 1992 - 1995.
  • Department of Justice: Outstanding Performance Ratings, 1980, 1982 - 1985; Meritorious Awards, 1982, 1984; Special Achievement Awards, 1979, 1980; Antitrust Division Award of Merit, 1985.
  • Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Graduate Fellowships: Mathematics, 1974 - 1975; Economics, 1976 - 1977; Doctoral Dissertation in Economics, 1977 - 1978.
  • Valedictorian, University of Maryland, 1973.
 
Professional Activities
Committee Memberships:
American Economic Association
American Philosophical Association
American Bar Association (associate member)
American Law and Economics Association
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Industrial Organization Society
Association for Educ