Details about Timothy J. Brennan

Homepage:	http://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/timothy-j-brennan/
Workplace:	Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, (more information at EDIRC) Resources for the Future (RFF), (more information at EDIRC) Department of Public Policy, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2016

1. Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency Regulation
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (1)
2. How Much Relevance Does Reality Imply? (Re)Considering the Endowment Effect
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future

2013

3. Holding Distribution Utilities Liable for Outage Costs: An Economic Look
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future

2012

4. Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Economics and Policy
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Energy efficiency resource standards: Economics and policy, Utilities Policy, Elsevier (2013) View citations (6) (2013)

2011

5. Energy Efficiency Policy: Surveying the Puzzles
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (10)
6. Prizes, Patents, and Technology Procurement: A Proposed Analytical Framework
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (5)

2009

7. Energy Efficiency: Efficiency or Monopsony?
   UMBC Economics Department Working Papers, UMBC Department of Economics View citations (4)
   Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2009) View citations (4)
8. More Than a Wing and a Prayer: Government Indemnification of the Commercial Space Launch Industry
   UMBC Economics Department Working Papers, UMBC Department of Economics
   Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2009)
9. Optimal Energy Efficiency Policies and Regulatory Demand-Side Management Tests: How Well Do They Match?
   UMBC Economics Department Working Papers, UMBC Department of Economics View citations (16)
   See also Journal Article Optimal energy efficiency policies and regulatory demand-side management tests: How well do they match?, Energy Policy, Elsevier (2010) View citations (30) (2010)
10. The Challenges of Climate for Energy Markets
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future
    Also in UMBC Economics Department Working Papers, UMBC Department of Economics (2009)

2008

11. Is the Benefit of Reserve Requirements in the “Reserve” or the “Requirement”?
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (1)
12. “Night of the Living Dead” or “Back to the Future”? Electric Utility Decoupling, Reviving Rate-of-Return Regulation, and Energy Efficiency
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (1)

2007

13. Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes?
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (3)

2005

14. Alleged Transmission Undersupply: Is Restructuring the Cure or the Cause?
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2005)
15. Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (2)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2005) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Consumer preference not to choose: Methodological and policy implications, Energy Policy, Elsevier (2007) View citations (37) (2007)

2003

16. Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (6)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2003) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?, The Electricity Journal, Elsevier (2003) View citations (6) (2003)
17. State and Federal Roles in Facilitating Electricity Competition: Legal and Economic Perspectives
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future View citations (6)
18. State and Federal Roles in Facilitating Electricity Competition: Legal and Economic Perspectives in the Electricity Sector
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (6)

2002

19. Market Failures in Real-Time Metering: A Theoretical Look
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2002)
20. Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition? The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in Electricity
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (3)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2002) View citations (3)

2001

21. "Vertical Market Power" as Oxymoron: Getting Convergence Mergers Right
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2001)
22. 'Green' Preferences as Regulatory Policy
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2001)
23. Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Policies, Potholes, and Prospects
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future View citations (2)
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2001) View citations (2)
24. Policy, Federalism, and Regulating Broadband Internet Access
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (5)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2001) View citations (5)

2000

25. The Economics of Competition Policy: Recent Developments and Cautionary Notes in Antitrust and Regulation
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (5)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (2000) View citations (5)

1999

26. Do Lower Prices For Polluting Goods Make Environmental Externalities Worse?
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future View citations (3)
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (1999) View citations (3)

1998

27. Demand-Side Management Programs Under Retail Electricity Competition
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (11)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (1998) View citations (10)
28. Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (4)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future (1998) View citations (3)

1996

29. Pluralism and Regulatory Failure: When Should Takings Trigger Compensation?
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (1996)
30. Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Contracts
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (1996) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Constracts, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer (1997) View citations (9) (1997)

Journal Articles

2020

1. Vertical Mergers, The Coase Theorem, And The Burden of Proof
   Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2020, 16, (4), 488-510 View citations (1)

2018

2. The Rise of Behavioral Economics in Regulatory Policy: Rational Choice or Cognitive Limitation?
   International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2018, 25, (1), 97-108 View citations (4)

2017

3. Consumer’s Guide to Regulatory Impact Analysis: Ten Tips for Being an Informed Policymaker
   Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2017, 8, (2), 187-204 View citations (2)
4. The Post-Internet Order Broadband Sector: Lessons from the Pre-Open Internet Order Experience
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2017, 50, (4), 469-486 View citations (5)

2015

5. Holding distribution utilities liable for outage costs
   Energy Economics, 2015, 48, (C), 89-96

2014

6. Behavioral economics and policy evaluation
   Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5, (1), 89-109 View citations (2)
   Also in Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5, (1), 89-109 (2014) View citations (2)
7. Economics at the FCC, 2013–2014
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2014, 45, (4), 345-378 View citations (1)

2013

8. Energy Efficiency Policy Puzzles
   The Energy Journal, 2013, Volume 34, (Number 2) View citations (7)
9. Energy efficiency resource standards: Economics and policy
   Utilities Policy, 2013, 25, (C), 58-68 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Economics and Policy, RFF Working Paper Series (2012) View citations (3) (2012)
10. Mitigating Monopoly or Preventing Discrimination: Comparing Antitrust to Regulatory Goals in the Interstate Commerce Act
    Review of Industrial Organization, 2013, 43, (1), 103-119 View citations (2)
11. Putting a floor on energy savings: Comparing state energy efficiency resource standards
    Utilities Policy, 2013, 25, (C), 43-57 View citations (1)

2011

12. Energy efficiency and renewables policies: Promoting efficiency or facilitating monopsony?
    Energy Policy, 2011, 39, (7), 3954-3965 View citations (5)
13. “High-Tech” Antitrust: Incoherent, Misguided, Obsolete, or None of the Above? Comments on Crandall-Jackson and Wright
    Review of Industrial Organization, 2011, 38, (4), 423-433

2010

14. Decoupling in electric utilities
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2010, 38, (1), 49-69 View citations (33)
15. Optimal energy efficiency policies and regulatory demand-side management tests: How well do they match?
    Energy Policy, 2010, 38, (8), 3874-3885 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper Optimal Energy Efficiency Policies and Regulatory Demand-Side Management Tests: How Well Do They Match?, UMBC Economics Department Working Papers (2009) View citations (16) (2009)
16. The Challenges of Climate Policy
    Australian Economic Review, 2010, 43, (3), 225-239 View citations (2)

2009

17. Network Effects in Infrastructure Regulation: Principles and Paradoxes
    Review of Network Economics, 2009, 8, (4), 23 View citations (4)

2008

18. Applying "Merger Guidelines" market definition to (de)regulatory policy: Pros and cons
    Telecommunications Policy, 2008, 32, (6), 388-398 View citations (2)
19. BUNDLED REBATES AS EXCLUSION RATHER THAN PREDATION
    Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2008, 4, (2), 335-374 View citations (6)
20. Conspiracy in Industry or Conspiracy in Academe? A Review of Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer, The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2008, 15, (2), 265-279 View citations (1)
21. Generating the Benefits of Competition: Challenges and Opportunities in Opening Electricity Markets
    C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, 2008, (260) View citations (2)

2007

22. Consumer preference not to choose: Methodological and policy implications
    Energy Policy, 2007, 35, (3), 1616-1627 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications, RFF Working Paper Series (2005) View citations (2) (2005)

2006

23. "Green" preferences as regulatory policy instrument
    Ecological Economics, 2006, 56, (1), 144-154 View citations (15)
24. Alleged Transmission Inadequacy: Is Restructuring the Cure or the Cause?
    The Electricity Journal, 2006, 19, (4), 42-51 View citations (8)
25. POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE EFFICIENCY OF COMPENSATION FOR TAKINGS
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2006, 24, (1), 188-202 View citations (13)

2004

26. Market Failures in Real-Time Metering
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2004, 26, (2), 119-139 View citations (9)

2003

27. Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?
    The Electricity Journal, 2003, 16, (8), 11-22 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Electricity Capacity Requirements: Who Pays?, RFF Working Paper Series (2003) View citations (6) (2003)

2002

28. Implementing Electricity Restructuring
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2002, 22, (1), 99-132 View citations (8)

1998

29. The Spectrum as Commons: Tomorrow's Vision, Not Today's Prescription
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1998, 41, (2), 791-803 View citations (1)

1997

30. Industry parallel interconnection agreements
    Information Economics and Policy, 1997, 9, (2), 133-149 View citations (5)
31. Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Constracts
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1997, 11, (1), 41-54 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Contracts, Discussion Papers (1996) (1996)

1996

32. Is Cost-of-Service Regulation Worth the Cost?
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1996, 3, (1), 25-42 View citations (6)
33. Making Economic Sense of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996, 5, (4), 941-61 View citations (2)

1994

34. Comparing the Costs and Benefits of Diversification by Regulated Firms
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1994, 6, (2), 115-36 View citations (16)
35. Markets, Information, and Benevolence
    Economics and Philosophy, 1994, 10, (2), 151-168 View citations (4)

1993

36. Scully, Gerald W. Constitutional environments and economic growth
    Forum for Social Economics, 1993, 22, (2), 71-75
37. The Futility of Multiple Utility
    Economics and Philosophy, 1993, 9, (1), 155-164 View citations (3)

1992

38. Integrating communication theory into media policy: An economic perspective
    Telecommunications Policy, 1992, 16, (6), 460-474
39. Morality, Rationality, and Efficiency: New Perspectives on Socio-Economics
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1992, 26, (4), 1271-1275
40. Refusing to Cooperate with Competitors: A Theory of Boycotts
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1992, 35, (2), 247-64
41. Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1992, 26, (3), 963-966

1990

42. Cross-Subsidization and Cost Misallocation by Regulated Monopolists
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1990, 2, (1), 37-51 View citations (21)

1989

43. A Methodological Assessment of Multiple Utility Frameworks
    Economics and Philosophy, 1989, 5, (2), 189-208 View citations (18)
44. Divestiture policy considerations in an information services world
    Telecommunications Policy, 1989, 13, (3), 243-254
45. Regulating by Capping Prices
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1989, 1, (2), 133-47 View citations (81)

1988

46. The economics of telecommunications: by John T. Wenders (Ballinger, Cambridge, MA) 1987, 284 pages. ISBN 0-88730-119-3
    Information Economics and Policy, 1988, 3, (3), 268-269

1981

47. Reasoning and Method in Economics: An Introduction to Economic Methodology
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1981, 15, (3), 796-799

1980

48. On Not Quantifying the Nonquantifiable [with Reply]
    Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1980, 2, (2), 267-273
49. The Utility of Being Hanged on the Gallows [with Reply]
    Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1980, 3, (1), 129-134 View citations (1)
50. Toward a Humanist Reconstruction of Economic Science: Comment
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1980, 14, (4), 1019-1025

1979

51. Explanation and Value in Economics
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1979, 13, (4), 911-932

Edited books

2023

1. Postal Strategies
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer
2. The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer

2022

3. The Economics of the Postal and Delivery Sector
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer

2020

4. The Changing Postal Environment
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer View citations (3)

2018

5. New Business and Regulatory Strategies in the Postal Sector
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer View citations (8)
6. The Contribution of the Postal and Delivery Sector
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer View citations (2)

2017

7. The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer View citations (1)

2016

8. The Future of the Postal Sector in a Digital World
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer View citations (9)

2015

9. Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy
   Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Springer View citations (7)

Chapters

2023

1. Supporting Postal Services Through Location-Based Fees
   Springer
2. The Economic Implications of “Density-Based Rate Authority”
   Springer

2022

3. Assessing Diversification in the Postal Sector
   Springer

2020

4. Pricing “Competitive” Postal Products
   Springer

2018

5. Inducing Optimal Quality Under Price Caps: Why, How, and Whether
   Springer View citations (1)
6. Michael Crew’s (and Paul Kleindorfer’s) Scholarly Contributions to the CRRI Postal Conferences, 1990–2012
   Springer

2017

7. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act After 10 Years—Some Proposals for Reform
   Springer

2016

8. Price Cap Regulation and Declining Demand
   Springer View citations (4)

2015

9. Business Models: Some Implications for USPS
   Springer

2014

10. Gross substitutes versus marginal substitutes: implications for market definition in the postal sector
    Chapter 1 in The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age, 2014, pp 1-15 View citations (2)

2007

11. Saving Section 2: Reframing U.S.Monopolization Law
    A chapter in The Political Economy of Antitrust, 2007, pp 417-451

2005

12. Regulation and Competition as Complements
    Springer View citations (3)
13. ‘Fair use’ as policy instrument
    Chapter 5 in Developments in the Economics of Copyright, 2005