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-
Dr. Gerard
uses a law & economics approach to examine the
development, implementation and enforcement of regulations,
including the relationships between regulations and
technological change. His recent research includes
an interrelated set of projects associated with automobile
regulations and transportation fuels regulations.
These include setting environmental, fuel economy,
and safety standards, how regulations affect technology
choice, and how the type and reliability of technologies
affect urban air quality and public health.
Dr. Gerard came to Carnegie Mellon as a research fellow
in 2001. He has been the Executive Director of the
Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation
(CSIR) since 2003.
Representative
Publications/Working Papers
'The
Political Economy of Setting Risk Regulations: The
Case of Transportation Fuels," Presented
at the annual meeting of the International Society
for the New Institutional Economics, September 2004.
(with David E. Stikkers and Paul S. Fischbeck)
"Implementing
Technology-Forcing Policies: The 1970 Clean Air Act
and the Introduction of Advanced Emission Control
Systems" Forthcoming in Technology Forecasting
and Social Change (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).
"Transaction
Costs and the Value of Mining Claims." Land
Economics (August 2001) 77(3): 371-384.
"Property
Rights and Technological Innovation: Legal Remedies
and Pollution Abatement in U.S. Mining."
In The Technology of Property Rights. Edited by T.
Anderson and P. Hill. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Press. 2001. (With Timothy J. LeCain).
"The
Law and Economics of Reclamation Bonds." Resources
Policy. (December 2000) 26(4): 189-197.
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