Ted Gayer the Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-2103 (202) 797-6230 [email protected]
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Ted Gayer The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-2103 (202) 797-6230 [email protected] As of September 23, 2019 Employment Vice President and Director of Economic Studies Program and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, August 2013-. Co-Director of Economic Studies Program and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, September 2009-August 2013. Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University, June 2004-August 2009. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Economic Policy (Microeconomic Analysis), Department of the Treasury, July 2007-July 2008. Adjunct Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), 2007-2009. Visiting Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), September 2006-June 2007. Lone Mountain Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Summer 2006. Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, 2006-2007. Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, July 2004-July 2006. Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, July 2003-July 2004. Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, July 1999-July 2001. Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University, August 1997-June 2004. Affiliations and External Activities Consultant and Author, “A Primer on Market-Oriented Climate Policy,” Alliance for Market Solutions, 2016. Member, Advisory Council, The Hamilton Project, 2010-. Consultant, Stoel Rives LLP, 2015. 1 Expert Evaluator for Natural Resources Management Indicator, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Appointed 2005. Member, U.S. EPA’s Superfund Benefits Analysis Advisory Committee, Appointed 2005. Member, U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, 2004-2009. Consultant, Analysis Group, 2009. Education Ph.D. Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1997. M.A. Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1993. B.A. Mathematics/Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992. Academic Honors and Grants “Tax-exempt Municipal Bonds and the Financing of Professional Sports Facilities,” Laura and John Arnold Foundation, March 13, 2014 – March 31, 2016. “Evaluations of the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit and the Cash for Clunkers Program,” with Karen Dynan, MacArthur Foundation, September 1, 2010 – March 1, 2012. “The Effects of the Endangered Species Act on Economic Development,” with Michael Greenstone, Smith Richardson Foundation: Grant #2006-6082, December 1, 2006 – 2008. Secretary of the Treasury’s Honor Award, July 2008. Georgetown University Summer Academic Grant, 2003. Georgetown University Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 2002. Georgetown University Summer Academic Grant, 1999. Georgetown University Summer Academic Grant, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996. Duke University Departmental Scholarship, 1992-1995. Duke University Summer Fellowship, 1993. Joseph J. Spengler Fellowship, Duke University, 1992-1993. 2 Lewis Greenhut Prize in Economics, Emory University, 1992. Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis Title: “Mappings on the Cantor Set and the Interval [a,b],” Emory University, 1992. Books Public Finance, by Harvey S. Rosen and Ted Gayer, 2007, 2009, 2014, McGraw-Hill Irwin. Also published in Korean as JaeJung Hak, McGraw-Hill, 2007, 2011; in Croatian as Javne Financije, 2010; in Italian as Scienza delle Finanze, McGraw-Hill, 2010, 2014; in Greek as Tomos A Demosia Oikonomike, McGraw-Hill, 2009; in Serbian as Javne Finansije, CUGURA Print, Beograd, 2009; in Chinese as Cai Zheng Xue, McGraw-Hill, 2009, 2015; in Spanish as Hacienda Pública, McGraw-Hill, 2014; in Portuguese as Finanças públicas, 2015; in Romanian as Finante publice, McGraw-Hill, 2008. Classics in Risk Management, edited by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer (2 volume set), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Summer 2004. Articles and Book Chapters “Tax-exempt Municipal Bonds and the Financing of Professional Sports Stadiums,” National Tax Journal (Forthcoming), by Austin J. Drukker, Ted Gayer, and Alexander K. Gold. “Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Reform Program,” Brookings Institution, by Ted Gayer, Robert Litan, and Philip Wallach, October 2017. “Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds and the Financing of Professional Sports Stadiums,” Brookings Institution, by Ted Gayer, Austin J. Drukker, and Alexander K. Gold, September 2016. “Regulatory Equilibrium.” In Achieving Regulatory Excellence, Cary Coglianese, editor, Brookings Institution Press. “Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Benefits,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 10:2 (2016), by Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi. “Resisting Abuses of Benefit-Cost Analysis,” National Affairs 27 (Spring 2016), by Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi. “Rational Benefit Assessment for an Irrational World: Toward a Behavioral Transfer Test,” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 7:1 (2016), by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer. (Awarded best article of 2016 for Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis) “Social Cost of Carbon: Domestic Duty,” Science Volume 351 (February 5, 2016), 569, by Art Fraas, Randall Lutter, Susan Dudley, Ted Gayer, John Graham, Jason F. Shogren, and W. Kip Viscusi. 3 “Behavioral Public Choice: The Behavioral Paradox of Government Policy,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 38:3 (2015): 973-1007, by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer. “Behavioral Public Choice: The Behavioral Paradox of Government Policy,” by W. Kip Viscusi, Mercatus Working Paper, March 2015. “Cash for Clunkers…Not So Clever,” by Ted Gayer and Emily Parker, Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter 2014. “Cash for Clunkers: An Evaluation of the Car Allowance Rebate System,” Brookings Institution, by Ted Gayer and Emily Parker, October, 2013. “An Evaluation of Federal and State Tax Incentives,” by Karen Dynan, Ted Gayer, and Natasha Plotkin, June, 2013. “Overriding Consumer Preferences with Energy Regulations,” Journal of Regulatory Economics 43 (2013): 248-263, by Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi. “Overriding Consumer Preferences with Energy Regulations,” by Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi, Mercatus Working Paper, July, 2012. “Linking Climate Policy to Fiscal and Environmental Reform,” Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, May 19, 2012. “Policies for Housing Finance Reform,” by Karen Dynan, Ted Gayer, and Phillip Swagel. “Government’s Role in the Housing Finance System: Where Do We Go from Here?” by Karen Dynan and Ted Gayer, in The Future of Housing Finance, edited by Martin Neil Baily, Brookings Institution Press, 2011. “Economic Policymaking during the Great Recession,” in The Obama Presidency, edited by Andrew J. Dowdle, Dirk C. Van Raemdonck, and Robert Maranto, Routledge. “Pricing Pollution,” National Affairs (Winter 2011). “Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Approaches to Environmental Economics,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57:1 (2009): 21-44, by Michael Greenstone and Ted Gayer. “Speech in Honor of Harvey Rosen for Receiving the Dan Holland Medal,” National Tax Journal, forthcoming. “Preschool Programs Can Boost School Readiness,” Science Volume 320 (June 27, 2008), 1723-1724, by William T. Gormley, Jr., Deborah Phillips, and Ted Gayer. 4 “Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation,” Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 1:4 (2006), 1-129, by Ted Gayer and John Horowitz. “Designing Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Regulation of Mercury Emissions,” Journal of Regulatory Economics 30:3 (2006), 291-315, by Ted Gayer and Robert Hahn. “Response to Zeller and Booth on Costs and Benefits of Regulating Mercury,” Science Volume 310 (November 4, 2005), 777-778, by Ted Gayer and Robert Hahn. “The Effects of Universal Pre-K on Cognitive Development,” Developmental Psychology 41:6 (2005), 872-884, by William T. Gormley, Ted Gayer, Deborah Phillips, and Brittany Dawson. “When Economists Dream, They Dream of Clear Skies,” The Economists’ Voice Vol. 2: No. 2, Article 7 (2005), by Ted Gayer, John K. Horowitz, and John A. List. “Regulating Mercury: What’s at Stake?” Science Volume 309 (July 8, 2005), 244-245, by Ted Gayer and Robert Hahn. “The Political Economy of Mercury Regulation,” Regulation 28:2 (2005), 26-33, by Ted Gayer and Robert Hahn. “Promoting School Readiness in Oklahoma: An Evaluation of Tulsa’s Pre-K Program,” Journal of Human Resources 40:3 (Summer 2005), 533-558, by William T. Gormley, and Ted Gayer. “Quantifying and Valuing Environmental Health Risks,” by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer, in The Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 2, edited by Karl-Göran Mäler and Jeffery R. Vincent (Amsterdam: Elsevier, North-Holland: 2005), 1030-1103. “Auctioning Pollution Rights,” Regulation 27:4 (2004), 16-17, by Ted Gayer. “The Fatality Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickups Relative to Cars” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 28:2 (2004), 103-133, by Ted Gayer. "Introduction," with W. Kip Viscusi, in W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer, eds., Classics in Risk Management Volume I (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004), pp. xiii- xxxi. “Safety at Any Price?” Regulation 25:3 (2002), 54-63, by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer. “Graduate Studies in the History of Economics,” History of Political Economy 34 (2002), 35-61, by Ted Gayer. “The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information,” Southern Economic Journal 69:2 (2002), 266-289, by Ted Gayer, James T. 5 Hamilton, and W. Kip Viscusi. Reprinted in The Economics