Dr. William E. Taylor
Affiliated Consultant
Education
PhD in economics and MA in statistics, University of California, Berkeley
BA in economics, Harvard College
Experience
Dr. Taylor specializes in telecommunications economics, focusing on state and federal regulatory reform, competition policy, economic issues concerning broadband network architectures, quantitative analyses of state and federal price cap and incentive regulation proposals, mergers and antitrust, and contract litigation in telecommunications markets. He has applied economic theories of price squeezes and cross-subsidization to long distance telephone, Centrex, and public telephone markets.
In the area of environmental regulation, Dr. Taylor has worked on statistical issues in the measurement of emissions levels from coal-fired electric power generators and municipal waste-to-energy facilities.
Dr. Taylor has published extensively in the areas of telecommunications economics and policy and in theoretical and applied econometrics. His articles have appeared in Econometrica, American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, Antitrust Law Journal, The Review of Industrial Organization, and The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Taylor was a Member, Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and Bell Communications Research. He also previously taught at Cornell University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Research Fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the University of Louvain, Belgium.
Languages
English
French
