John W. Mayo

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Founder and Executive Director

Ph.D., Economics, Washington University

Research Interests

• Antitrust
• Competition & Regulation
• Telecommunications
• Electricity

About

John Mayo is Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He also serves as the Executive Director for the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, which he founded in 2002. His research interests lie in the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust, and, more generally, the application of microeconomics to public policy. He has published roughly 70 articles in economics, law and public policy journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. He is also the author of numerous book chapters and monographs, and is the co-author of a comprehensive text, “Government and Business: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation.”  Mayo’s research and or interviews have appeared in the popular press, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Mayo has held a number of senior administrative positions at Georgetown including a term as Dean of the McDonough School of Business. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at both UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. Additionally, he has been the Chief Economist, U.S. Senate Small Business Committee (Democratic Staff), and has served as an advisor and consultant to both public and private agencies.  He has participated in a number of regulatory and antitrust proceedings and has testified before both Congress and state legislative and regulatory bodies on a number of matters, including monopolization, price fixing, mergers, and regulatory policy.

Mayo received his Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and his B.A. from Hendrix College.

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Selected Publications 

• Economic Foundations for 21st Century Freight Rail Rate Regulation November 2018
• Will Ideology Block Opportunity? Regulatory Reform in the Infrastructure Industries May 2018
• Will Ideology Block Opportunity? Regulatory Reform in the Infrastructure Industries November 2017
• From Universal Service to Universal Connectivity July 2017
• An Economic Perspective of Title II Regulation of the Internet July 2017
• International Telecommunications Demand March 2017
• Competition in Telecommunications: Global Lessons for Policy Development in Mexico January 2017
• The Evolution of “Competition”: Lessons for 21st Century Telecommunications Policy December 2016
• Regulation and Investment: Sk(r)ewing the Future for 21st Century Telecommunications? June 2016
• Defining “Competition” for the 21st Century Telecommunications Industry April 2016
• Does the Internet Improve Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey March 2016
• Formal Versus Informal Channels: How Firm Size Affects Corporate Political Activities February 2016
• When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? January 2016
• Results Based Regulation: 20th Century Lessons and 21st Century Opportunities September 2015
• Toward a More Efficient and Effective Lifeline Program August 2015
• Assessing the Economic Benefits and Costs of the FCC’s Imposition of Title II Regulation August 2015
• Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Oversight of Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era June 2015
• The 35th Anniversary of the Staggers Rail Act: Railroad Deregulation Past, Present and Future May 2015
• EPV: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Policy Prospects for Applications of Revenue Adequacy May 2015
• The Evolution of Innovation and the Evolution of Regulation: Emerging Tensions and Emerging Opportunities in Communications December 2014
• Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet December 2014
• Democracy Journal Fall 2014: Regulating the Digital Economy, Beyond Ideology: A Results-Based Approach October 2014
• Revenue Adequacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly July 2014
• The Economics and Law of Net Neutrality June 2014
• Spectrum Auctions and Economic Welfare: A Cautionary Tale for Policymakers February 2014
• Employing Auctions to Allocate Scarce Inputs February 2014
• Communications Policy: Reflections at an Inflection February 2014
• The Evolution of Regulation: Twentieth Century Lessons and Twenty-First Century Opportunities April 2013
• Is it Time to Unify Telecommunications Policy? October 2012
• The Wireless Revolution: Are the Elderly Keeping Up? May 2012
• Secondary Markets: The Quiet Economic Value Creator December 2011
• The (Not-so) Dismal Science and the Super Committee: The Spectrum Option November 2011
• Achieving Rural Universal Service in a Broadband Era: Emergent Evidence from the Evolution of Telephone Demand October 2011
• The Evolution of Regulation: 20th Century Lessons and 21st Century Opportunities June 2011
• Secondary Spectrum Markets as Complements to Incentive Auctions April 2011
• Regulator Heterogeneity and Endogenous Efforts to Close the Information Asymmetry Gap February 2011
• Making a Market out of a Mole Hill? Geographic Market Definition in Aspen Skiing September 2010
• Benchmarking Policy in a Global Telecommunications Industry: The Case of Net Neutrality April 2010
• Regulating Early Termination Fees: When “Pro-Consumer” Legislation Isn’t January 2010
• Policymaking in the Wireless Telephone Industry: Let’s Avoid the Rorschach Approach August 2009
• Enabling Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum Markets June 2009
• Universal Service: Can We Do More With Less? February 2009
• It’s No Time to Regulate Wireless Telephony February 2008
• Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don’t Households Pick up the Lifeline? November 2007
• Ready, Fire, Aim: Telecommunications Policy in the Primary Season November 2007
• Google: Trust Yet Verify, Proposed merger with DoubleClick deserves antitrust scrutiny September 2007
• Net Neutrality: The Prequel March 2007
• The Economic Facts and FAQs of National Video Franchising: Reflections on the House of Representatives Debate June 2006