Navigant Economics

Robert W. Crandall, Senior Expert

Robert W. Crandall is a Senior Expert at Navigant Economics LLC and Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., a position that he has held since 1978. His areas of expertise are antitrust, telecommunications, the automobile industry, competitiveness, deregulation, environmental policy, industrial organization, industrial policy, mergers, regulation, and the steel industry.

Previously, Dr. Crandall was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1966 and 1974. He has also taught at George Washington University. He has twice served in the federal government. He was Acting Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Executive Office of the President. In 1974-75, he was an adviser to Commissioner Glen O. Robinson of the FCC. Dr. Crandall has been a consultant on regulatory and antitrust matters to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, to the Federal Trade Commission, to the Canadian Competition Bureau, and to more than twenty companies in the telecommunications, cable television, broadcasting, newspaper publishing, automobile, and steel industries. He has also been a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Dr. Crandall has written widely on telecommunications policy, the economics of broadcasting, and the economics of cable television. He is the author or co-author of seven books on communications policy published by the Brookings Institution since 1989. He is the author of Competition and Chaos: U.S. Telecommunications since the 1996 Act (Brookings Institution 2005). With James H. Alleman, he is the author of Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access (Brookings Institution 2002). With Leonard Waverman, he is co-author of Who Pays for Universal Service? When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent (Brookings Institution 2000) and Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications (Brookings Institution 1996). With Harold Furchtgott-Roth, he is co-author of Cable TV: Regulation or Competition? (Brookings Institution 1996). He is also the author of After the Breakup: U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era (Brookings Institution 1991). With Kenneth Flamm, he is co-author of Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications (Brookings Institution 1989). In addition, he has published four other books on regulation and industrial organization with the Brookings Institution. With Pietro S. Nivola, he is co-author of The Extra Mile: Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation (Brookings Institution 1995). He is the author of Manufacturing on the Move (Brookings Institution 1993). With Donald F. Barnett, he is co-author of Up From Ashes: The U.S. Minimill Steel Industry (Brookings Institution 1986). He is also co-author with Howard K. Gruenspecht, Theodore E. Keeler, and Lester B. Lave of Regulating the Automobile (Brookings Institution 1986). Dr. Crandall's work has been cited on numerous occasions by the federal judiciary and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).