Robert Hahn - SCI Associated Professor

Robert Hahn is Tesco Professor of Economics and Professorial Research Fellow at The University of Manchester. He is also a senior visiting fellow at the Smith School at Oxford and a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy.

From 1999 to 2008, Professor Hahn served as the Director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center, a leader in policy research in law and economics, regulation, and antitrust. Previously, he worked for  U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the market-based cap-and-trade system for limiting smokestack sulfur emissions at minimum cost to industry. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Hahn is a frequent contributor to leading scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as to general-interest periodicals including the New York Times and Forbes.com. He is also the co-founder of Regulation2point0.org.

Professor Hahn is the author of several books, among them Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Policy and Internet, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and Regulation. For a sampling of Prof Hahn's recent research, click on links below.

• The Effects of Allowance Allocation on Cap-and-Trade System Performance, with Robert N. Stavins, Journal of Law and Economics, essay in honor of Ronald Coase, under review.
• An Evaluation of Government Efforts to Improve Regulatory Decision Making, International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2010, forthcoming.
• Government Failure and Market Failure: On the Inefficiency of Environmental and Energy Policy, with David Anthoff, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, (2010), 26 (2), 197-224.
• Climate Policy: Separating Fact from Fantasy, Harvard Environmental Law Review (2009) 33, 557-591.
• Greenhouse Gas Auctions and Taxes: Some Practical Considerations, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, (2009), 1-22. 

Professor Hahn has served as a consultant to government and business on a variety of issues ranging from encouraging private investment in Mexico City, to designing more cost-effective alternative fuels policy in the U.S., to rethinking the way we regulate the Internet. In addition, he is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Email: robert.hahn@manchester.ac.uk