Robert W. CRANDALL - Brooking Institute

Robert W. Crandall is a Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. His research has focused on telecommunications regulation, cable television regulation, the effects of trade policy in the steel and automobile industries, environmental policy, and the changing regional structure of the U.S. economy.  His current research focuses on competition in the telecommunications sector and on the development of broadband services. His latest book, Competition and Chaos: U.S. Telecommunications since the 1996 Act, was published by Brookings in 2005. His book on broadband policy, Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access? (edited with James Alleman) was published by Brookings in 2002. His book on universal service in telephony, Who Pays for “Universal Service”? (written with Leonard Waverman of the London Business School), was published by Brookings in 2000. He was also a contributor, with Professor Jerry Hausman of MIT, to the Brookings book, Deregulation of Network Industries: What's Next? (Sam Peltzman and Clifford Winston, editors). Mr. Crandall is also the author of Talk is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (with Leonard Waverman); Cable TV: Regulation or Competition? (With Harold Furchtgott-Roth); The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation (with Pietro Nivola); After the Breakup: The U.S. Telecommunications Sector in a More Competitive Era; Manufacturing on the Move; Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications (with Kenneth Flamm), and numerous journal articles.
He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.