James E. Prieger

James E. Prieger holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Previously he did his BA at Yale University, USA. Currently, he is a professor at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, USA. He specializes in regulatory economics, public policy concerning health and the internet, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Prieger is a Senior Economist at BOTEC Analysis, where he has led research teams on illicit tobacco markets and other tobacco-related policy issues. He is a senior fellow at the Reason Foundation, where he has studied the regulation of alternative tobacco products. He has published about four dozen articles in refereed academic journals and chapters in books.

Publications

Targeted Enforcement Against Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products: The Case of the United States
Targeted Enforcement Against Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products: The Case of the United States
James E. Prieger. © 2023. 37 pages.
Illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) is often facilitated by corruption and in some cases helps terrorism financing. Enforcement against ITTP is vital but involves tradeoffs...
An Update on Mobile Broadband Availability in the United States
An Update on Mobile Broadband Availability in the United States
Thomas V. Church, James E. Prieger. © 2016. 14 pages.
Macroeconomics Aspects of E-Commerce
Macroeconomics Aspects of E-Commerce
Daniel Heil, James E. Prieger. © 2016. 15 pages.
Microeconomic Aspects of E-Commerce
Microeconomic Aspects of E-Commerce
James E. Prieger, Daniel Heil. © 2016. 17 pages.
The Empirics of the Digital Divide: Can Duration Analysis Help?
The Empirics of the Digital Divide: Can Duration Analysis Help?
Wei-Min Hu, James E. Prieger. © 2013. 19 pages.
Accurate measurement of digital divides is important for policy purposes. Empirical studies of broadband subscription gaps have largely used cross-sectional data, which cannot...
Deployment of Mobile Broadband Service in the United States
Deployment of Mobile Broadband Service in the United States
James E. Prieger, Thomas V. Church. © 2013. 24 pages.
Broadband deployment in the United States is expanding rapidly but unevenly. Using new FCC census data on wireline and wireless broadband providers, the authors of this chapter...
The Empirics of the Digital Divide: Can Duration Analysis Help?
The Empirics of the Digital Divide: Can Duration Analysis Help?
Wei-Min Hu, James E. Prieger. © 2010. 21 pages.
Accurate measurement of digital divides is important for policy purposes. Empirical studies of broadband subscription gaps have largely used cross-sectional data, which cannot...
The Macroeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy
The Macroeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy
Daniel Heil, James E. Prieger. © 2010. 11 pages.
The growing use of information and communications technology (ICT) by business—e-business— has a profound impact on the economy. E-business lowers costs and increases the choices...
The Microeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy
The Microeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy
James E. Prieger, Daniel Heil. © 2010. 11 pages.
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in business—the most expansive definition of e-business—is transforming the world economy. E-business at the...
Is Regulation a Roadblock on the Information Highway?
Is Regulation a Roadblock on the Information Highway?
James E. Prieger, Daniel Heil. © 2009. 18 pages.
Regulatory policy in telecommunications must balance short-term efficiency (low prices) against the firms’ incentives to innovate, which have longer reaching impacts on economic...
Competition in Broadband Provision and the Digital Divide
Competition in Broadband Provision and the Digital Divide
Wei-Min Hu, James E. Prieger. © 2008. 19 pages.
This chapter examines the supply of DSL broadband by the incumbent local exchange company (LEC) in five U.S. states in the earlier years of deployment. Our empirical analysis...
Regulation and the Deployment of Broadband
Regulation and the Deployment of Broadband
James E. Prieger, Sunhwa Lee. © 2008. 25 pages.
This study examines the impact of telecommunications regulatory policy on broadband service deployment. Using U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and...