Bio

Roger G. Noll is professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University. Noll also is a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board at the American Antitrust Institute. Noll received a B.S. with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University. Prior to joining Stanford, Noll was a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Institute Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. At Stanford, Noll served as Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Director of the Public Policy Program, and Senior Fellow in the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research where he also was Director of the Program in Regulatory Policy and Director of the Stanford Center for International Development.

Noll is the author or co-author of seventeen books and over three hundred articles and reviews. His primary research interests include technology policy; antitrust, regulation and privatization policies in both advanced and developing economies; economic aspects of public law (administrative law, judicial processes, and statutory interpretation); and the economics of sports and entertainment. Among Noll’s published books are Economic Aspects of Television Regulation (1973), Government and the Sports Business (1974), The Technology Pork Barrel (1991), Constitutional Reform in California (1995), Sports, Jobs and Taxes (1997), Challenges to Research Universities (1998), and Economic Reform in India (2013).

Noll has been a member of the advisory boards of the U.S. Department of Energy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and National Science Foundation. He also has been a member of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy of the National Research Council, and of the California Council on Science and Technology.

Noll has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the annual book award of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the Rhodes Prize for undergraduate education at Stanford, the Distinguished Service Award of the Public Utilities Research Center, the Alfred E. Kahn Distinguished Career Award from the American Antitrust Institute, the Distinguished Member Award from the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association, Economist of the Year from Global Competition Review, and the American Antitrust Institute award for Distinguished Achievement by an Economist in Antitrust Litigation.

Academic Appointments

Honors & Awards

  • Guggenheim Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation (1983-84)
  • Rhodes Prize for Undergraduate Education, Stanford (1994)
  • Distinguished Service Award 2001, Public Utilities Research Center, University of Florida (2001)
  • Distinguished Career Award 2006, Brookings-AEI Joint Center on Regulation and Markets (2006)
  • Alfred E. Kahn Distinguished Career Award 2012, American Antitrust Institute (2012)
  • Distinguished Member Award 2013, Transportation and Public Utilities Group, American Economic Association (2013)
  • Economist of the Year 2015, Global Competition Review (2015)
  • Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement Award in Economics, American Antitrust Institute (2015)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Secretary, President's Task Force on Income Maintenance (1968 - 1968)
  • Member, Advisory Board, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1976 - 1982)
  • Chair, Los Angeles School Monitoring Committee, Superior Court for Los Angeles (1977 - 1978)
  • Member, Advisory Board, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1978 - 1981)
  • Member, Advisory Board, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (1982 - 1991)
  • President and Chairman of the Board, Telecommunications Policy Research Foundation (1986 - 1987)
  • Member, Energy Research Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy (1986 - 1989)
  • Member, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (1990 - 1995)
  • Member, California Council on Science and Technology (1995 - 2001)

Program Affiliations

  • Public Policy

Professional Education

  • B.S., California Institute of Technology, Mathematics (1962)
  • Ph. D., Harvard University, Economics (1967)

Contact

  • Academic
    rnoll@stanford.edu
    University - Emeritus faculty Department: Economics Position: Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council
    • 324 Landau Economics Bldg.
    • Stanford,  California  94305 

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All Publications

  • Thomas Tietenberg and the Tradable Permits Innovation INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS Noll, R. G. 2023; 17 (4): 449-476

    View details for DOI 10.1561/101.00000162

    View details for Web of Science ID 001074478900004

  • 99 Bottles: A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines (Book Review) JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS Book Review Authored by: Noll, R. 2022; 17 (2): 174-176

    View details for DOI 10.1017/jwe.2022.14

    View details for Web of Science ID 000849758300011

  • Sports Economics on Trial: Alston v. NCAA JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS Noll, R. G. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1177/15270025221078504

    View details for Web of Science ID 000776564200001

  • Collusion in College Sports: O’Bannon v. NCAA (2015) The Antitrust Revolution Noll, R. G. Oxford University Press. 2018; 7th
  • Economic Reform in India edited by Hope, N. C., Kochar, A., Noll, R., Srinavasan, T. N. Cambridge University Press. 2013
  • Endogeneity in Attendance Demand Models The Econometrics of Sport Noll, R. G. Edward Elgar. 2013
  • Evaluación de las Políticas de Telecomunicaciones en México El Trimestre Económico Noll, R. G. 2013; 8 (3): 603-650
  • Malleable Constitutions: Reflections on State Constitutional Reform TEXAS LAW REVIEW Cain, B. E., Noll, R. G. 2009; 87 (7): 1517-1544

    View details for Web of Science ID 000268086600010

  • Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE Arrow, K., Auerbach, A., Bertko, J., Brownlee, S., Casalino, L. P., Cooper, J., Crosson, F. J., Enthoven, A., Falcone, E., Feldman, R. C., Fuchs, V. R., Garber, A. M., Gold, M. R., Goldman, D., Hadfield, G. K., Hall, M. A., Horwitz, R. I., Hooven, M., Jacobson, P. D., Jost, T. S., Kotlikoff, L. J., Levin, J., Levine, S., Levy, R., Linscott, K., Luft, H. S., Mashal, R., McFadden, D., Mechanic, D., Meltzer, D., Newhouse, J. P., Noll, R. G., Pietzsch, J. B., Pizzo, P., Reischauer, R. D., Rosenbaum, S., Sage, W., Schaeffer, L. D., Sheen, E., Silber, M., Skinner, J., Shortell, S. M., Thier, S. O., Tunis, S., Wulsin, L., Yock, P., Bin Nun, G., Bryan, S., Luxenburg, O., van de Ven, W. P. 2009; 150 (7): 493-?

    Abstract

    The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the U.S. health care system are evident. Sustainable health care reform must go beyond financing expanded access to care to substantially changing the organization and delivery of care. The FRESH-Thinking Project (www.fresh-thinking.org) held a series of workshops during which physicians, health policy experts, health insurance executives, business leaders, hospital administrators, economists, and others who represent diverse perspectives came together. This group agreed that the following 8 recommendations are fundamental to successful reform: 1. Replace the current fee-for-service payment system with a payment system that encourages and rewards innovation in the efficient delivery of quality care. The new payment system should invest in the development of outcome measures to guide payment. 2. Establish a securely funded, independent agency to sponsor and evaluate research on the comparative effectiveness of drugs, devices, and other medical interventions. 3. Simplify and rationalize federal and state laws and regulations to facilitate organizational innovation, support care coordination, and streamline financial and administrative functions. 4. Develop a health information technology infrastructure with national standards of interoperability to promote data exchange. 5. Create a national health database with the participation of all payers, delivery systems, and others who own health care data. Agree on methods to make de-identified information from this database on clinical interventions, patient outcomes, and costs available to researchers. 6. Identify revenue sources, including a cap on the tax exclusion of employer-based health insurance, to subsidize health care coverage with the goal of insuring all Americans. 7. Create state or regional insurance exchanges to pool risk, so that Americans without access to employer-based or other group insurance could obtain a standard benefits package through these exchanges. Employers should also be allowed to participate in these exchanges for their employees' coverage. 8. Create a health coverage board with broad stakeholder representation to determine and periodically update the affordable standard benefit package available through state or regional insurance exchanges.

    View details for Web of Science ID 000265117600008

    View details for PubMedID 19258550

  • Broadcasting and team sports SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY Noll, R. G. 2007; 54 (3): 400-421

    View details for Web of Science ID 000247173500006

  • "Buyer power" and economic policy Symposium on Buyer Power and Antitrust NOLL, R. G. AMER BAR ASSOC, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATORY PRACTICE SECTION. 2005: 589–624

    View details for Web of Science ID 000226993800010

  • The conflict over vertical foreclosure in competition policy and intellectual property law 21st International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics Noll, R. G. J C B MOHR. 2004: 79–96

    View details for Web of Science ID 000221412100008

  • The organization of sports leagues Editorial Conference on the Study of Sports Economics NOLL, R. G. OXFORD UNIV PRESS. 2003: 530–51

    View details for Web of Science ID 000189140500005

  • Federal R&D in the antiterrorist era Meeting of the Innovation-Policy-and-the-Economy-Group (IPE) Noll, R. G. M I T PRESS. 2003: 61–89

    View details for Web of Science ID 000244616000003

  • Intellectual property, antitrust and the new economy UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW Cohen, L. R., NOLL, R. G. 2001; 62 (3): 453-473

    View details for Web of Science ID 000169831500003

  • Regulatory reform and international trade policy 8th National Bureau of Economic Research East Asia Seminar on Economics NOLL, R. G. UNIV CHICAGO PRESS. 2000: 13–54

    View details for Web of Science ID 000087710900002

  • The Bell Doctrine: Applications in telecommunications, electricity, and other network industries STANFORD LAW REVIEW Joskow, P. L., NOLL, R. G. 1999; 51 (5): 1249-1315

    View details for Web of Science ID 000080456300006

  • The future of the national laboratories Colloquium on Science, Technology, and the Economy Cohen, L. R., NOLL, R. G. NATL ACAD SCIENCES. 1996: 12678–85

    Abstract

    The end of the Cold War has called into question the activities of the national laboratories and, more generally, the level of support now given to federal intramural research in the United States. This paper seeks to analyze the potential role of the laboratories, with particular attention to the possibility, on the one hand, of integrating private technology development into the laboratory's menu of activities and, on the other hand, of outsourcing traditional mission activities. We review the economic efficiency arguments for intramural research and the political conditions that are likely to constrain the activities of the laboratories, and analyze the early history of programs intended to promote new technology via cooperative agreements between the laboratories and private industry. Our analysis suggests that the laboratories are likely to shrink considerably in size, and that the federal government faces a significant problem in deciding how to organize a downsizing of the federal research establishment.

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996VT05400005

    View details for PubMedID 8917479

  • Reforming risk regulation ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE NOLL, R. G. 1996; 545: 165-175

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996UG66500018

  • The complex politics of catastrophe economics Conference on the Social Treatment of Catastrophic Risk NOLL, R. G. KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL. 1996: 141–46

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996UV93200005

  • The economics of information Conference on Challenging Marketplace Solutions to Problems in the Economics of Information Noll, R. ASSOC RESEARCH LIBRARIES. 1996: 37–42

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996BH41W00004

  • PRIVATIZING PUBLIC RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Cohen, L. R., NOLL, R. G. 1994; 271 (3): 72-77

    Abstract

    With the end of the cold war, national defense has given way to international competitiveness as the theme for federal support of research. As it now stands, the idea will probably not work well.

    View details for Web of Science ID A1994PC43700022

    View details for PubMedID 8091191

  • THE NATIONAL AEROSPACE PLANE - AN AMERICAN TECHNOLOGICAL LONG SHOT, JAPANESE STYLE 103RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOC Cohen, L. R., EDELMAN, S. A., NOLL, R. G. AMER ECON ASSN. 1991: 50–53

    View details for Web of Science ID A1991FJ36400008

  • ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS IN THE YEAR 2000 JOURNAL OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY Hahn, R. W., NOLL, R. G. 1990; 3 (4): 351-367

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990EK61800004

  • SOME IMPLICATIONS OF COGNITIVE-PSYCHOLOGY FOR RISK REGULATION JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES NOLL, R. G., KRIER, J. E. 1990; 19 (2): 747-779

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990DU19700011

  • POSITIVE AND NORMATIVE MODELS OF PROCEDURAL RIGHTS - AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES JOURNAL OF LAW ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION MCCUBBINS, M. D., NOLL, R. G., Weingast, B. R. 1990; 6: 307-332

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990FF63800017

  • STRUCTURE AND PROCESS, POLITICS AND POLICY - ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AND THE POLITICAL CONTROL OF AGENCIES VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW MCCUBBINS, M. D., NOLL, R. G., Weingast, B. R. 1989; 75 (2): 431-482

    View details for Web of Science ID A1989T836700013

  • GOVERNMENT RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR COMMERCIALIZING SPACE AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW Cohen, L. R., NOLL, R. G. 1986; 76 (2): 269-273

    View details for Web of Science ID A1986C125500055

  • WORKSHOP ON FEDERAL-FUNDING AND KNOWLEDGE GROWTH IN SUBFIELDS AND SPECIALTIES OF SCIENCE - DISCUSSANTS COMMENTS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE Noll, R., Kruytbosch, C., Blume, S. 1986; 16 (1): 135-150

    View details for Web of Science ID A1986A664000006

  • LET THEM MAKE TOLL CALLS - A STATE REGULATORS LAMENT AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW NOLL, R. G. 1985; 75 (2): 52-56

    View details for Web of Science ID A1985AGN3100010

  • PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT - WILL IT SOLVE MEDICARE FINANCIAL PROBLEM ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Enthoven, A. C., NOLL, R. G. 1984; 1 (1): 101-116

    View details for Web of Science ID A1984TU16900009

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