Robert Hahn
Robert Hahn is a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and a senior visiting fellow at the Smith School at Oxford. From 1999 to 2008, Dr. Hahn served as the director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, a leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the innovative market-based approach for reducing acid rain. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Hahn is a frequent contributor to leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as to general-interest periodicals including the New York Times. He is the author of several books, among them Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective.
Dr. Hahn has served as a consultant to government and business on a variety of issues involving regulation, competition, and privatization. In addition, he is 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.
Contributions:
An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband Plan written with Scott Wallsten - June 2009
Greenhouse Gas Auctions and Taxes: Some Political Economy Considerations, originally appearing in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Advance Access - June 2009
Comments of 71 Concerned Economists: Using Procurement Auctions to Allocate Broadband Stimulus Grants - April 2009
Climate Policy: Separating Fact from Fantasy, originally appearing in Harvard Environmental Law Review, vol. 33 2009 - April 2009
