Date
Oct. 1, 2001
Authors
Tim Brennan
Publication
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Senior Fellow
Tim Brennan is a senior fellow at RFF. His primary research interests are regulatory economics and competition policy, with applications to the electricity, telecommunications, and postal sectors.
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