Arthur Fraas is a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future. At RFF, Fraas works on a variety of issues related to energy and the environment, including projects looking at issues and tradeoffs with energy efficiency regulations, the development of retrospective analyses of major environmental rules, the treatment of uncertainty in regulatory analysis, and the potential regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Before joining the OMB, Fraas was a senior economist at the Council on Wage and Price Stability, a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, an assistant professor of economics at the US Naval Academy, and a staff economist with the Federal Reserve System.
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 1972
Fields of Concentration: Money and Banking, Econometrics
Dissertation: The Impact of the Policies of the Second Bank of the United States on the Economy of the Ohio Valley: 1814-1829 - BS in Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1965