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"The authors" [2002] ELECD 26; in Robinson, Colin (ed), "Utility Regulation and Competition Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002)

Book Title: Utility Regulation and Competition Policy

Editor(s): Robinson, Colin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840648508

Section Title: The authors

Number of pages: 10

Extract:

The authors

Mark Armstrong is Official Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College,
Oxford. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and
until 1997 was Professor of Economic Policy at Southampton Univer-
sity. Much of his research concerns the theory of optimal pricing and tariffing
decisions by firms with market power, including various forms of price
discrimination, quantity discounts and auctioning schemes. Other, more
applied, research interests are to do with regulatory and competition policy,
with a special focus on telecommunications and broadcasting; this includes,
with Simon Cowan and John Vickers, Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis
and British Experience (MIT Press, 1994). He is currently managing editor of
the academic journal Review of Economic Studies, and has acted as an
economic adviser to the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) and the Office
of Fair Trading (OFT).

Ian Charles Rayner Byatt was appointed as the first Director General of
Water Services on 1 August 1989. He is an economist and an expert on the
regulation of public utilities. His previous post was Deputy Chief Economic
Adviser to the Treasury (1978-89).
Ian Byatt (born 1932) was educated at Kirkham Grammar School and St
Edmund Hall and Nuffield College, Oxford. He holds a D.Phil. in economics.
He also studied at Harvard as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow, and has lectured
in economics at both Durham University (1958-62) and the London School of
Economics (1964-67).
Byatt joined the Civil Service in 1967 as Senior Economic Adviser to the
Department of Education ...