TPUG
Fall 2005 Newsletter
Transportation & Public Utilities
Group
American Economic Association
TPUG OFFICERS
John Mayo
President
Georgetown University
Martin Dresner
President-Elect
The Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
JOHN HOWARD BROWN
Secretary General
School of Economic Development
P.O Box 8152
College of Business Administration
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8152
(912) 681-0896
jbrown@GeorgiaSouthern.edu
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(Prof.) Tae H. Oum
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2003-2005
The University of British Columbia
MARK A. JAMISON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2004-2006
University of Florida
Thomas Corsi
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2005-2007
University of Maryland
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ANNUAL MEETING 2006
ANNOUNCEMENT
Annual Meeting of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) / AEA will be
held on January 6-8, 2006 (Friday-Sunday) in Boston, MA. Program details will be found below.
Note the Luncheon Reservation form on page 10; and a New Membership/Membership Renewal
Application (please make a copy and give it to an interested friend) provided separately. All
TPUG events will be held at the Hilton Back Bay. The Annual Business meeting will be held
Saturday, January 6 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the Hilton Back Bay Lincoln room. Also
please note that the dues increase approved last year is in effect. Dues are now $20 annually or a
lifetime membership is available for $200.
Thank You,
John Howard Brown, Secretary-General
Friday, January 3, 2002
TPUG ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING AND COCKTAIL
RECEPTION (CASH BAR)
Hilton Back Bay Lincoln room
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Business Meeting
President=s Report
Secretary-General’s Report
Announcements and Other Business
Saturday, January 7, 2006
8:00 AM
Competitive and Structural Issues in Transportation Economics
Presiding: WAYNE TALLEY, Old Dominion University
SIMON P. ANDERSON, University of Virginia, and WESLEY W. WILSON,
University of Oregon—Spatial Modeling in Transportation II: Railroad
Pricing, Alternative Markets, and Capacity Constraints
MARIA N. ARBATSKAYA, KAUSHIK MUKHOPADHAYA, Emory
University, and ERIC B. RASMUSEN, Indiana University--The Parking Lot
Problem
MARC IVALDI, University of Toulouse, and GERARD MCCULLOUGH,
University of Minnesota--Welfare Tradeoffs in U.S. Rail Mergers
WILLIAM HUNEKE, Surface Transportation Board--A Mixed Strategies
Approach to Railroad-Shipper Negotiations
JEFFREY P. COHEN, University of Hartford, and KRISTEN MONACO,
California State University-Long Beach--Ports and Highways Infrastructure
Investment and Inter-state Spatial Spillovers
Discussants: WAYNE TALLEY, Old Dominion University
ROBERT WINDLE, University of Maryland
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10:15 am
Foundations for the Future of Regulatory Policy in
Telecommunications
Presiding: JOHN W. MAYO, Georgetown University
GREGORY L. ROSSTON, Stanford Institute for Economic Research,
SCOTT J. SAVAGE, University of Colorado-Boulder, and BRADLEY S.
WIMMER, University of Nevada--Las Vegas--Regulated Prices with
Competition and Heterogeneous Consumers
DAVID GABEL, Queens College, and CAROLYN GIDEON, Tufts
University--Retail Prices, Rebalancing, and Facilities-Based Entry into the
Telecommunications Market
CARLO CAMBINI, Politenico di Torino, TOMMASSO M. VALLETTI,
Imperial College of London and CEPR-- Information Exchange and
Competition in Communications Networks
ALAIN DE FONTENAY and CHRISTIAAN HOGENDORN, Columbia
University--Entry and Vertical Disintegration
Discussants: JEFFREY MACHER, Georgetown University
SCOTT WALSTEN, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
DAVID MANDY, University of Missouri
TPUG LUNCHEON
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Hilton Back Bay - Jefferson Room
Price: $45.00
Agenda
Distinguished Member Award
Guest Speaker - TBA
Presiding
John Mayo, President TPUG
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2:30 PM
Airline Economics
Session Chair: Kennneth Button, George Mason University
“(When) Do Hub Airlines Internalize Their Self-Imposed Congestion Delays?”
Joseph I. Daniel and Katherine Thomas Harback, University of Delaware
“Competition with Differentiated Products: The Case of Low Cost Carrier vs.
Legacy Carrier Competition in U.S. Domestic Airline Markets” Xiaowen Fu,
University of British Columbia, Martin Dresner, University of Maryland, and
Tae H. Oum, University of British Columbia,
“The Welfare Implications of Congestion-Based Landing Fees in a NonAtomistic World” Steven Morrison, Northeastern University and Clifford
Winston, The Brookings Institution
“Many Fields of Battle: How Cost Structures Affect Competition Across
Multiple Markets” Li Zou, University of Maryland
Discussants:
1. Kenneth Button, George Mason University
2. Steven Morrison, Northeastern University
3. Tae H. Oum, University of British Columbia
Sunday, January 8, 2005
10:15 am Joint with AEA
Regulation and Antitrust in a Deregulating Telecommunications Industry
Presiding: JOHN W. MAYO, Georgetown University
ROGER NOLL, Stanford University—Is Substituting Competition for Regulation
Still Feasible after Trinko?
TIMOTHY BRENNAN, University of Maryland-Baltimore County—Trinko versus
Baxter: The Demise of U.S. v. AT&T
MICHAEL R. WARD, University of Texas-Arlington, and GLENN A. WOROCH,
University of California-Berkeley—Fixed-Mobile Telephone Subscription:
Substitution in the U.S.
SCOTT WALLSTEN, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies—
Broadband Penetration: An Empirical Analysis of State and Federal Policies
Discussants: PAUL JOSKOW, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ROBERT MAJURE, U.S. Department of Justice
THOMAS LYON, University of Michigan
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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Persons interested in presenting a paper for one of the TPUG sessions at the 2007 meetings in
should send the title and a brief abstract of the proposed paper to:
Martin Dresner,
The Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
The proposed abstracts should be submitted by March 1, 2006.
TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC UTILITIES GROUP (TPUG) DISSERTATION AWARD
If approved by the members, TPUG will conduct its annual TPUG Doctoral dissertation
competition in 2006 to acknowledge outstanding contributions of young scholars in the fields of
transportation and public utilities. An announcement will be distributed to all members and
through other appropriate channels in early 2006.
John Howard Brown will organize two sessions (one each of public utilities and transportation
topics) for the International Industrial Organization Conference in Boston MA, April 7-9, 2006.
Please submit paper abstracts by November 20, 2005.
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Membership in TPUG
If you have colleagues or friends who would be interested in joining the Transportation and
Public Utilities Group of AEA, have them complete the form in the attached membership brochure
and mail it together with a check made payable to TPUG for $20.00 (annual dues) to the Secretary
General. We are now also offering a lifetime membership at $200. Extra brochures are included for
any friend or colleagues interested in membership PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS
NEWSLETTER TO ANY INDIVIDUALS WHO YOU THINK MAY BE INTERESTED IN BEING
A TPUG MEMBER.
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JOHN HOWARD BROWN
SECRETARY-TREASURER
School of Economic Development
P.O Box 8152
College of Business Administration
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8152
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LUNCHEON RESERVATION FORM
Saturday, January 7, 20063 at 12:30 p.m.
Hilton Back Bay - Jefferson Room
Luncheon Speaker
TBA
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I plan to attend the TPUG of AEA luncheon on Saturday, 1/4/2003
at 12:30 p.m.
Number of guest(s) accompanying me to the luncheon: ______
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I do not plan to attend the luncheon.
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I plan to attend the Annual Business Meeting and Cocktail Reception (Cash Bar) on
Friday, January 3, 2003 at 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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Amount enclosed:
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Please return by December 1, 2005 to:
JOHN HOWARD BROWN
SECRETARY-TREASURER
School of Economic Development
P.O Box 8152
College of Business Administration
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8152
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DISTINGUISHED MEMBER AWARDS
In 1964, the chair-elect of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group was instructed
A. . . to appoint a committee to study plans for honoring Transportation and Public Utility Group
members who have made significant contributions to the field and to the Transportation and
Public Utilities Group during their careers.@ The committee=s conclusions and recommendations
provided for the recognition of past achievements of individuals who have enjoyed full,
distinguished careers. This precedent was reaffirmed in the spring of 1973 by ballot vote of the
membership.
As a result of this directive, forty-seven awards of recognition have been made since 1965. In four
of these years, two or more awards were presented. Recipients include: James C. Bonbright,
Martin G. Glaeser, D. Philip Locklin, Dudley F. Pegrum, E. Grosvenor Plowman, Ben Lewis,
Kent Healy, Marvin L. Fair, Joseph Rose, John Frederick, James C. Nelson, Robert W.
Harbeson, Eli W. Clemens, C. Emery Troxel, James R. Nelson, Beatrice Aitchison, Horace M.
Gray, L. L. Waters, Alfred E. Kahn, Charles A. Taff, Ernest W. Williams, Jr., William Vickrey,
Wilfred Owen, William H. Thompson, Roy J. Sampson, John F. Due, Merrill Roberts, Harry M.
Trebing, Martin T. Farris, Robert D. Pashek, George W. Wilson, John Hazard, Donald V.
Harper, James E. Suelflow, David S. Schwartz, John C. Spychalski, Edythe Miller, Douglas N.
Jones, Curtis A. Cramer, William Waters III, John Meyer, Charles F. Phillips, Jr. ,Ken Small,
Rodney E. Stevenson , Trevor Heavor , William Melody, Steven Morrison (2003).
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