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The School of Public Policy Hosts Economist Jerry Ellig in a Discussion of the Future of Regulation

Economist Jerry Ellig comes to Pepperdine University on Monday, Nov. 9, to discuss the nuts and bolts of how regulation currently works in Washington, D.C., provide information about the trends over the past few decades, and suggest ideas for changing the regulatory process. His presentation begins at 12 noon, in the Drescher Graduate Campus Auditorium, Malibu.  

Ellig is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he has worked since 1996. Between August 2001 and August 2003, he served as deputy director and acting director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. Ellig has also served as a senior economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and as an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University.

Ellig has published numerous articles on government regulation and business management in both scholarly and popular periodicals, including the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Antitrust Bulletin, Competitive Intelligence Review, Journal of Private Enterprise, Texas Review of Law & Politics, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron’s, and Washington Post. He has co-authored/edited several books, including Dynamic Competition and Public Policy (Cambridge, 2001), New Horizons in Natural Gas Deregulation (Praeger, 1996), and Municipal Entrepreneurship and Energy Policy (Gordon & Breach, 1994).

The economy expert earned his PhD and MA in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and his BA in economics from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

For more information about this event, contact Christina Ramirez at (310) 506-7497, or visit the School of Public Policy Web site.

Biography courtesy of the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.