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EPP Faculty
Executive Director, Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (CSIR)
Law & Economics, Natural Resource & Environmental Economics, Regulation and Public Policy
B.A. (American Studies and Economics) 1990, Grinnell College
M.S. 1994, and Ph.D. (Economics) 1997, University of Illinois
Carnegie Mellon, 2001-
David Gerard is the executive director of the Center for the Study & Improvement of Regulation (CSIR). His area of expertise is the development, implementation and enforcement of regulations, and the effect of regulatory institutions on economic behavior, the environment and public safety. Two areas of central interest are risk regulations and the interrelationships between regulations and technological change. His current research interests include vehicle safety, the regulation of oil refineries and transportation fuels, automobile emissions, and the development of regulations to govern carbon sequestration. He is also on the development team of TrafficSTATS, an interactive website that calculates travel fatality risks for various vehicle types, demographic characteristics, and other parameters.
In addition, he teaches economics for the masters program in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management, as well as courses on institutions, regulation, and public policy in EPP and in the Department of Social & Decision Sciences.
Representative Publications
Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Integrating Technology, Monitoring, Regulation. Blackwell Publishing (2007). (Co-Editor with Elizabeth J. Wilson).
“An Interactive Tool to Compare and Communicate Traffic Safety Risks” Forthcoming in Transportation Research Forum (With Paul S. Fischbeck, Barbara Gengler, and Randy S. Weinberg).
“Diesels and Hybrids Don’t Mix: Public Perceptions and Actual Driving Behavior of New Diesel and Hybrid Owners,” Forthcoming in Transportation Research Record (With Paul S. Fischbeck and H. Scott Mathews).
“Experiments in Technology-Forcing: Comparing the Regulatory Processes of U.S. Automobile Safety and Emissions Regulations,” International Journal of Technology Policy and Management (2007) 7(1): 1-14. (With Lester Lave).
“The Economics of CAFE Reconsidered: A Response to CAFE Critics and A Case for Fuel Economy Standards,” Regulatory Analysis 03-10. AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. October 2003. (with Lester Lave).
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