James E. Prieger

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

james.prieger@pepperdine.edu

office:  SPP 193

(310) 506-7150 Phone
(310) 506-7494 Fax

Note:  I am off campus to work with the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. for the 2008-09 academic year.

Research Interests:

Economics of Public Policy, Industrial Organization, Regulation, Applied Econometrics, Telecommunications Economics.

Current Research:

Antitrust issues in network markets, the broadband Digital Divide, the impact of the Americans With Disabilities Act on retail firms.

Past Research:

Cell phone use while driving and accidents, conditional moments tests for heterogeneity in parametric duration models, selection models for duration and count data, efficient Universal Service funding, alternative telecommunications regulation and innovation.