Andy H. Barnett, Professor
PhD, University of Virginia, 1978

Address: Department of Economics School of Business and Management (SBM) American University of Sharjah P.O. Box 26666 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Room: NAB117 Office: +(971) 6 515 2542 E-mail: abarnett@aus.edu

Research Interests:

1. Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Public Policy and Welfare Economics.

Selected Books, Books Chapters and Articles:

1. The US Organ Procurement System:  Economic Assessment of a Policy Failure (Co-authored with David Kaserman) American Enterprise Institute, 2002.
2. “The First Step in Restructuring the US Electric Industry” (Co-authored with Keith A. Reutter and Henry Thompson) Energy Economics, March 2005, pp. 225-235.
3. “Taxation as Regulation,” (Co-authored with Bruce Yandle) in Handbook of Public Finance, ed. Richard Wagner and Jurgen G. Backhaus, Springer Publishers, 2004.
4. "Retail Competition and Interstate Electricity Trade in the Southeast," (Co-authored with Justin Isaacs and Henry Thompson) The Electricity Journal, Spring 2002.
5. “Economic Observations on Citizen Suit Provisions of Environmental Legislation,” (Co-authored with Timothy Terrell) Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Spring/Fall 2001, pp. 1-38.
6. “Inefficient Pricing Can Kill: The Case of Regulation in the Dialysis Industry,” (Co-authored with T. Randolph Beard and David Kaserman) Southern Economic Journal, October 1993, pp. 393-404.  Reprinted in Foundations of Regulatory Economics, edited by Robert Ekelund, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998.
7. “The 'Rush to Transplant' and Organ Shortages,” (Co-authored with David L. Kaserman) Economic Inquiry, July 1995, pp. 506-515.  Reprinted in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: Price Theory and its Applications, edited by Bernard Saffran and F.M. Scherer, Elgar Reference Collection, 1998.
8. “The Pigouvian Tax Rule under Monopoly,” American Economic Review, December 1980, pp. 1037‑41.
9. “Allocating Environmental Resources,” (Co-authored with Bruce Yandle, Jr.) Public Finance, No. 1/1973, pp. 11‑19.  Reprinted in Environmental Valuation, edited by Kenneth G. Willis, Kenneth J. Button and Peter Nijkamp, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.

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