The Law and Economics of Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises

Seminar Series in Competition Policy

Wednesday, July 25, 2001 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

About This Event

An increasingly frequent theme sounded in competition policy throughout the world’s developed economies is that public enterprises are engaged in anticompetitive behavior aimed at private enterprises. In the United States, government enterprises, such as the U.S. Postal Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and government-sponsored enterprises, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are the object of such scrutiny. That scrutiny, however, has produced no systematic response in antitrust or regulatory policy. This conference will feature presentations and a roundtable discussion on legal and economic principles relevant to assessing the competitive conduct of public enterprises.

Agenda

8:45 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00	Introduction:	J. Gregory Sidak, AEI
	Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises
	Speakers:	Dennis E. Logue, University of Oklahoma
		John R. Lott, Yale University
		J. Gregory Sidak, AEI
		Peter J. Wallison, AEI
	Moderator:	Rick Geddes, Fordham University
10:00	Coffee Break
10:15	Roundtable Discussion
	Moderator:	J. Gregory Sidak, AEI
11:30	Adjournment

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R. Richard
Geddes

Rick Geddes is associate professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. His research fields include private infrastructure investment through public-private partnerships, postal service policy, corporate governance, women's property rights, and antitrust policy. He is a Research Associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Australian National University in Canberra in the fall of 2009, and a Visiting Researcher at the Australian Government's Productivity Commission in the spring of 2010. His research focused on Australian public-private partnerships in both positions. Geddes teaches courses at Cornell on corporate governance and the regulation of industry.

In addition to his teaching and research at Cornell, Geddes served as a commissioner on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, which submitted its report to Congress in January 2008. He has held positions as a senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Visiting Faculty Fellow at Yale Law School, and National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

In 2008, Geddes received the Kappa Omicron Nu/Human Ecology Alumni Association Student Advising Award. His published work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy, and Managerial and Decision Economics, among others.
Email: rrg24@cornell.edu
Assistant Info
Name: Brad Wassink
Phone: 202-862-7197
Email: brad.wassink@aei.org