INSTITUTE PEOPLE
Janice
A. Beecher, Ph.D. Resume. Dr.
Beecher has served as Director of the Institute of Public Utilities (IPU)
at Michigan State University since 2002 and is an adjunct member of MSU's
Political Science and Economics Departments and the College of Law. Dr.
Beecher's career in regulation began in 1983 when she joined the
Chairman's office of the Illinois Commerce Commission as a policy analyst.
From there she held senior research positions at the National Regulatory
Research Institute (NRRI) at The Ohio State University and the School of
Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University (Indianapolis). She
was also principal of Beecher Policy Research. Dr. Beecher's areas
of expertise include regulatory theory, institutions, and policy; comparative
utility industry analysis; utility pricing and rate design; and the structure
and regulation of the water industry. Dr. Beecher has written and
lectured extensively, and also testified before several regulatory and
legislative bodies. Her work has been recognized through a number
of research grants and special appointments. Dr. Beecher has a B.A.
in Economics, Political Science, and History from Elmhurst College and
a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, where
she completed a dissertation on public utility regulation.
Johannes
M. Bauer, Ph.D., Senior Fellow. Professor Bauer is
on the faculty of the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies
and Media, Michigan State University and Executive Director of MSU's
James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for
Telecommunications Management and Law. Prof. Bauer is also a former
director of the Institute of Public Utilities. His research interests include
the economics and regulation of public utility and infrastructure industries,
the design of regulatory incentives and institutions, the globalization
of network-based industries in the energy and telecommunications sectors,
the economics of public enterprise, and the processes of regional economic
integration in North America, Europe, and Asia. Professor Bauer writes,
lectures, and consultants frequently in the U.S. and Europe. He
holds a M.A. and Ph.D. (economics), Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration, Vienna, Austria.
Adam
Candeub, Senior Fellow. Prof. Candeub joined the MSU Law faculty in the Fall of 2004. Prior
to this position, he was an attorney-advisor for the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) in the Media Bureau and previously in the Common Carrier
Bureau, Competitive Pricing Division. His work at the FCC involved him
in critical decisions in communications law. He is well published
in numerous law reviews. In addition to his scholarship and interest in
criminal law and philosophy, Professor Candeub has developed an impressive
expertise in communications, administrative and antitrust law as well as
an extensive background in economics. He teaches courses in the Intellectual
Property and Communications Law Program. Prof. Candeub received his
J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1995) and his B.A.
from Yale University (1990).
Kenneth
Rose, Ph.D., Senior Fellow. Dr. Kenneth Rose is an independent consultant and
a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State
University. Dr. Rose is a nationally recognized expert with more than twenty
years of research experience in the structure, economics, and regulation
of U.S. electricity markets. Dr. Rose's areas of expertise include electricity
wholesale and retail market restructuring, market power, and market monitoring.
Other research topics have included competitive bidding for power supply,
regulatory treatment of uneconomic costs, Clean Air Act implementation,
environmental externalities associated with electricity production, and
other issues associated with the electricity industry and its regulation.
Dr. Rose has directed or contributed to many reports, papers, articles,
and books and has testified or presented at many legislative and public
utility commission hearings, proceedings, conferences, and workshops. Dr.
Rose previously was a Senior Institute Economist at The National Regulatory
Research Institute at Ohio State University from 1989 to 2002 and also
a lecturer for the School of Public Policy and Management at OSU. Prior
to NRRI, Dr. Rose worked on many energy related issues at Argonne National
Laboratory from 1984 to 1989. Dr. Rose received his B.S. (1981), M.A. (1983),
and Ph.D. (1988) in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Harry
Trebing, Ph.D., Professor of Economics Emeritus and Director Emeritus
of the Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University; and
Adjunct Professor (Economics), New Mexico State University. Prof. Trebing
founded the Institute and served as its director from 1966 to 1991, having
responsibility for organizing and administering all education programs
sponsored by National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
(NARUC). He served as Chief Economist for both the U.S. Postal Rate Commission
and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on advisory panels for
the Congressional Office Technology Assessment, General Accounting Office,
U.S. Comptroller General, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National
Regulator Research Institute. He is past president of the Association
for Evolutionary Economic and recipient of the Veblen-Commons Award and
also past chairman of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of
the American Economic Association. He has authored numerous publications
dealing with public utility regulation and received a National Science
Foundation grant to study regulatory reform in energy utilities. He is
a recipient of several distinguished service awards. Prof. Trebing currently
serves as a Governor-appointed member of the Michigan Utility Consumer
Participation Board. Prof. Trebing holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University
of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Jon
Bartholic, Faculty Associate. Director, Water Research Institute, Michigan State University. Prof. Bartholic
is also a Professor in the Department of Resource Development. Prof. Bartholic
has directed water quality and land use studies at regional, state, county
and local watershed levels. He continues to work closely with MSU
colleagues, multiple federal and state agencies and organizations on water
quality and quantity issues, and land use and whole-farm planning from
a watershed perspective. Most recently he has been working with others
to develop an accessible integrated environmental information web-based
system including RS-GIS technologies to aid users in making sound environmental,
resource, and land use decisions. Prof. Bartholic has contributed significantly
to the design and implementation of a highly successful series of MSU Virtual
University Watershed Courses. He earned his bachelor's degree in
soil science from Michigan State University and his doctorate in soil physics
from South Dakota State University.
Bruce
Bettinghaus, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor in the Accounting and Information Systems department, within the College of Business at Michigan State University, teaching financial reporting and financial statement analysis in the undergraduate accounting core. His research is focused on the financial reporting behavior of U.S. companies. Recent work has looked at the reporting of interest rate risk in the banking industry. He has co-authored an article that appeared in the International Journal of Accounting, and has received a Graduate Assistant Teaching Award (1999) and an Ossian MacKenzie Teaching Award (1998). Bruce received a B.B.A. in Accounting, with a minor in Economics, from Grand Valley State University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from The Pennsylvania State University in 2000.
Ken
Boyer, Faculty Associate . Kenneth D. Boyer, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. B.A. (economics), Amherst College, Ph.D. (economics), University of Michigan. His primary research interests are in the economics of transportation and the economics of regulation. He is a 1979 winner of the Michigan State University teacher-scholar award and has taught at the Sino-American Training Center in Shanghai, China and the University of Michigan as well as at Michigan State University. He has conducted research on regulation and transportation in Western Europe, and is currently a member of two committees of the National Academy of Sciences. His textbook, Principles of Transportation Economics, was published in 1997. Prof. Boyer is the former Chair of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association.
J.
Robert Malko, Faculty Associate . Prof. Malko is a Professor of Finance in the College of Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Prof. Malko is currently serves as Vice President of the Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts, previously serving as president. He has served on the advisory boards of the Center for Public Utilities and the National Regulatory Research Institute. He has also served as Chair of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association. Earlier, Prof. Malko served as Chief Economist at the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin and was an active member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. He has consulted extensively and appeared as an expert witness before several regulatory commissions. He has written approximately 150 articles on public utility economics and finance, and also edited a number of books. Prof. Malko received the B.S. degree with honors in mathematics and economics from Loyola College (Baltimore, Maryland) and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. Prof. Malko is a Certified Rate of Return Analyst.
Steven
Miller, Faculty Associate. Steven Miller specializes in applied economic
methods for forecasting and impact analysis. As a graduate, Steven maintained
and programmed the Oklahoma State University Econometric Forecasting model
and served as investigator on several Oklahoma Department of Human Resources
studies of TANF funding, and child support studies for impact and needs
assessments. He has produced numerous impact assessments of Wichita, Kansas
area businesses seeking state and local sponsored incentives, produced
papers on aviation demand across competing regional airports, and papers
on alternative estimation methods of systems modeling.