ROGER NOLL
Professor
(also Professor by Courtesy, Department of Political Science and Graduate School of Business)

Ph.D. Harvard; B.S. California Institute of Technology.

Research Interests: Public policies towards business, rational actor models of public policy making, political behavior and legal processes.

Current Research: The positive theory of the courts, administrative procedures, and judicial review, economics and politics of utility regulation, economics of sports, telecommunications reform in developing countries.

Representative Recent Publications: (1) “The Economics of Promotion and Relegation in Sports Leagues: The Case of English Football,” Journal of Sports Economics Vol. 3, No. 2 (May 2002): 169-203; (2) “The Economics of Urban Water Systems,” in Thirsting for Efficiency, Mary M. Shirley, ed. Pergamon Press, 2002; (3) “Intellectual Property, Antitrust and the New Economy,” (with Linda R. Cohen) University of Pittsburgh Law Review Vol. 62, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 453-73.

Teaching Interests: Antitrust and regulation, the economic approach to politics, role and methods of economic policy analysis, the economics and politics of the admission of new states.

Cross-Disciplinary Interests: Administrative and constitutional law, political science (American political institutions, comparative policy-making in advanced industrialized democracies, positive political theory), nineteenth century American history.

Professional Affiliations: AEA, California Council on Science and Technology.