Infrastructure industries, ranging from transportation (e.g., rail), energy (e.g., electricity) and communications (e.g., broadband), have played prominent roles in stimulating economic growth in the United States and around the world. These roles have been and will continue to be affected by various public policies and institutions.
Governmental policies have the prospect to either advance or impede key measures of economic performance within each infrastructure industry, not only for the organizations that operate to build, supply, and maintain the respective utilities and facilities, but also for a variety of other related firms, industries, and the economy writ large.
Scholars affiliated with the center provide valuable research, scholarly output and policy-oriented economic analysis related to a variety of infrastructure industries.
Principal Investigators and Conveners: Jeffrey Macher, John Mayo
Little Nuggets of Tech and Telecom: 2023 Regulatory and Policy Hot Topics with Professors John Mayo and Glenn Woroch
Please join Carolyn and Jen for their April Lunch Nugget conversation with Georgetown’s very own Professor John Mayo and Professor Glenn Woroch of Berkeley. April’s installment of LNTT will focus on the myriad policy and regulatory issues facing companies in the tech and telecom sectors. …
Implementing the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act
Georgetown on the Hill: The Center for Business and Public Policy will explore the implementation of the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act…
Jeffrey Macher Warns of Potential Economic Fallout of a Rail Strike to ABC News
In a recent interview with the ABC News, The Center’s Academic Advisor and Professor of Strategy, Economics and Policy, Jeffrey T. Macher explains how a rail strike would negatively impact supply…
Delp, Ukhaneva, Mayo quoted in Transport Topics’ coverage of Freight Rail Colloquium
Several speakers at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business’ “The Economics and Regulation of the Freight Rail Industry” colloquium addressed various aspects of railroad and other…
Second Annual Research Colloquium on the Economics and Regulation of the Freight Rail Industry
The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 largely but not completely deregulated the U.S. freight rail industry. More than thirty years of hindsight affords a rich opportunity for fresh economic analysis of…
