Nino Abashidze is a post-doc researcher in the Health Economics and Analytics Lab at the Georgia Institute of Economics School of Economics. She comes from Georgia, a small country in the South Caucasus that during the past 20 years went through a unique series of transformations, serving as a kind of economic and social developmentContinue reading “Nino Abashidze”
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Jeff Laszlo
Granger Ranches, MT Jeff is a fourth-generation owner of the Granger Ranches in Montana’s Madison Valley. He lives in Montana full-time, where he manages the 13,000-acre traditional cattle ranch. Jeff’s efforts to restore a 6,000-acre wetland complex on the property earned him the Environmental Law Institute’s National Wetlands Award for Landowner Steward in 2010. JeffContinue reading “Jeff Laszlo”
Corbett Grainger
Corbett Grainger is an Associate Professor in the Agricultural & Applied Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin where he specializes in environmental and natural resource economics. His research emphasizes the distributional effects of regulations, property rights, and institutions. Grainger was a PERC Lone Mountain Fellow in 2015.
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Josiah Neeley
Josiah Neeley is senior fellow, energy policy director, and Southwest region director for the R Street Institute, a free market think tank advancing real solutions to complex public policy problems. He leads the institute’s energy program, which works to advance a well-defined and limited role for government in shaping decisions about infrastructure, wholesale and retailContinue reading “Josiah Neeley”
Maya Vijayaraghavan
Maya Vijayaraghavan is an economist and Steven M. Teutsch Fellow in the Office on Smoking and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. She served as a consultant to the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. Vijayaraghavan received her B.S. degree inContinue reading “Maya Vijayaraghavan”
V. Kerry Smith
Kerry Smith is an Emeritus Regents Professor and University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a university fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C. He is alsoContinue reading “V. Kerry Smith”
Vanessa Casado Perez
Vanessa Casado Perez is an Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law at Texas A&M University, as well as a Research Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics. Vanessa was a 2017 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow.
Lynne Kiesling
Lynne Kiesling is the Co-Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics (IRLE), in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Melon University. She previously served as a visiting Associate Professor and Associate Director at Purdue University Research Center in Economics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Lynne was a 2017 PERCContinue reading “Lynne Kiesling”
Eric Alston
Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence and Faculty Director of the Hernando De Soto Capital Markets Program at Colorado University, Boulder, and a Research Associate with the Comparative Institutions Project. He was a 2017 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow. Alston received his MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and his JD from theContinue reading “Eric Alston”