Gregory L. Rosston

Deputy Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Greg Rosston is a Research Fellow at SIEPR and Visiting Lecturer in Economics at Stanford University. His research has focused on industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. He has written numerous articles on competition in local telecommunications, implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, auctions and spectrum policy.

He has also co-edited two books, including Interconnection and the Internet: Selected Papers from the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference.

At Stanford, he has taught Regulation and Antitrust in the economics department and a seminar for seniors in the Public Policy program. Prior to joining Stanford University, Dr. Rosston served as Deputy Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission. At the FCC, he helped to implement the Telecommunications Act. In this work, he helped to design and write the rules the Commission adopted as a framework to encourage efficient competition in telecommunications markets. He also helped with the design and implementation of the FCC's spectrum auctions.

Dr. Rosston received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and his A.B. in Economics with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

Recent papers:

• "The ABC's of Universal Service: Arbitrage, Big Bucks and Competition," Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Working Paper No. 98-4, April 1999 (with Wimmer) Hastings Law Journal, vol.50, August 1999
  
  
• "An Insiders' View of Auctions," Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Working Paper No. 98-2, February, 1999 (with Kwerel, E.). forthcoming, Journal of Regulatory Economics