Joseph
Peggs Kalt
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4966
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ford Foundation Professor of International
Political Economy, 1992 - present
Areas of specialization include Industrial Organization,
Economics of Antitrust and Regulation, Natural
Resource Economics, Public Choice and Political
Economy, Microeconomic Theory.
Member, Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in
Political Economy and Government, 2002 - present
Faculty Chair, Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University Native American
Program, 2000 - present
Co-Director, The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, 1987
- present
Chair, Economics and Quantitative Methods Cluster, 1995 - 2000
Professor of Political Economy, 1986 - 1992
Faculty Chair and Academic Dean for Research, 1992 - 1994
Chairman, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Center for Science and
International Affairs, 1990 - 1994
Chairman of Degree Programs, 1990 - 1992
Chairman of Ph.D. Programs, 1989 - 1990
Assistant Director for Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Policy Center,
1985 - 1990
Co?Director, Harvard Study on the Future of Natural Gas Policy (with Frank
C. Schuller), Energy and Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, 1984?86
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
Associate Professor of Economics, 1983 - 1986
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1980 - 1983
Instructor in Economics, 1978 - 1980
Taught Economics of Antitrust and Regulation,
Intermediate Microeconomics, and Principles of
Economics.
President's Council of Economic Advisers, Washington
DC
Junior Staff Economist, 1974 - 75
Analyzed federal energy, environmental, transportation,
and tax policies.
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. in Economics, 1980
Dissertation: “Federal Control of Petroleum Prices: A Case Study of the
Theory of Regulation”
M.A. in Economics, 1977
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.A. in Economics, 1973
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH: BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
What Can Tribes Do: Strategies and Institutions
in American Indian Economic Development, Vol. II,
ed. (with Amy L. Besaw and Stephen Cornell) and
co-author of one chapter, UCLA American Indian
Studies Program, University of California Press,
forthcoming 2003.
Native America at the New Millennium (with the
research staff of the Harvard Project on American
Indian Economic Development), manuscript February
2002.
New Horizons in Natural Gas Deregulation, ed.
(with Jerry Ellig) and co-author of two chapters,
Greenwood Press, 1995.
What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions
in American Indian Economic Development, ed. (with
Stephen Cornell), University of California, 1992.
National Parks for the 21st Century: The Vail
Agenda, editor and primary author of the Report
of the Steering Committee, National Park Foundation,
Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1992.
Cases in Microeconomics (with Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez),
Prentice Hall, 1990.
Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation, ed.
(with F. C. Schuller) and author of two chapters,
Greenwood?Praeger Press/Quorum Books, 1987.
The FACS/Ford Study of Economic and Business Journalism
(with James T. Hamilton), Foundation for American
Communications and the Ford Foundation, 1987.
The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation:
Federal Policy in the Post?Embargo Era, MIT Press,
1981; paperback edition, 1983.
Petroleum Price Regulation: Should We Decontrol?
(with Kenneth J. Arrow), American Enterprise Institute,
1979.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH: ARTICLES
“One Works, the Other Doesn’t: Two
Approaches to Economic Development on American
Indian Reservations” (with Stephen Cornell),
working paper, Harvard Project on American Indian
Economic Development, November 2002.
The First Nations Governance Act: Implications
of Research Findings from the United States and
Canada (with Stephen Cornell and Miriam Jorgensen),
Report to the British Columbia Assembly of First
Nations, July 2002.
“Public Policy Analysis of Indian Gaming
in Massachusetts” (with Kenneth Grant and
Jonathan B. Taylor), Faculty Research Working Paper
Series #RWP02-019, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, May 13, 2002.
“Partisan Misperceptions and Conflict Escalation:
Survey Evidence from a Tribal/Local Government
Conflict” (with Keith G. Allred and Kessely
Hong), Faculty Research Working Paper Series #RWP02-013,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
March 2002.
“Means-Testing Indian Governments: Taxing
What Works” (with Jonathan Taylor), in Richard
C. Monk, ed., Taking Sides: Race and Ethnicity,
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2001.
“Where's the Glue? Institutional and Cultural
Foundations of American Indian Economic Development” (with
Stephen Cornell), The Journal of Socio-Economics,
vol. 29, 2000.
“Open Access for Railroads? Implications
for a Non-Hub, Congestible Network Industry”(with
Amy B. Candell), Advanced Workshop in Regulation
and Competition, Center for Research in Regulated
Industries, May 2000 (unpublished working paper).
“What Tribes Can Do: An Interview with Joseph
P. Kalt,” American Indian Report, March 1999.
“Sovereignty and Nation-Building: The Development
Challenge in Indian Country Today” (with
Stephen Cornell), The American Indian Culture and
Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, February 1999.
“Making Research Count in Indian Country:
The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic
Development” (with Manley A. Begay, Jr.,
and Stephen Cornell), Journal of Public Service
and Outreach, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 1998.
“Successful Economic Development and Heterogeneity
of Governmental Form on American Indian Reservations” (with
Stephen Cornell), in Merilee S. Grindle, ed., Getting
Good Government: Capacity Building in the Public
Sector of Developing Countries, Harvard University
Press, 1997.
“Cultural Evolution and Constitutional Public
Choice: Institutional Diversity and Economic Performance
on American Indian Reservations” (with Stephen
Cornell), Faculty Research Working Paper Series,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, January 1995;
reprinted in John Lott, ed., Uncertainty and Economic
Evolution: Essays in Honor of Armen A. Alchian,
Routledge Press, 1997.
“Regulatory Reform and the Economics of
Contract Confidentiality: The Example of Natural
Gas Pipelines” (with A. B. Jaffe, S. T. Jones,
and F. A. Felder), Regulation, 1996, No. 1.
“Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade
Policy: Do They Matter to the Political Economy
of the Lumber Dispute?” in The Political
Economy of American Trade Policy, Anne O. Krueger,
ed., University of Chicago Press, 1996.
“Do Precedent and Legal Argument Matter
in the Lumber CVD Cases?” in The Political
Economy of Trade Protection, Anne O. Krueger, ed.,
University of Chicago Press, 1996.
“Introduction: The New World of Gas Regulation” (with
Jerry Ellig), J. Ellig and J. P. Kalt, eds., New
Directions in Natural Gas Deregulation, Greenwood
Press, 1995.
“Incentive Regulation for Natural Gas Pipelines” (with
Adam B. Jaffe), in J. Ellig and J. P. Kalt, eds.,
New Directions in Natural Gas Deregulation, Greenwood
Press, 1995.
“Where Does Economic Development Really
Come From? Constitutional Rule Among the Modern
Sioux and Apache” (with Stephen Cornell),
Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association
International, Vol. XXXIII, July 1995, pp. 402-426.
“Insight on Oversight” (with Adam
B. Jaffe), Public Utilities Fortnightly, April
1995.
“ The Redefinition of Property Rights in American Indian Reservations:
A Comparative Analysis of Native American Economic Development” (with Stephen
Cornell), L. H. Legters and F. J. Lyden, eds., American Indian Policy: Self-Governance
and Economic Development, Greenwood Press, 1994.
“Reloading the Dice: Improving the Chances
for Economic Development on American Indian Reservations” (with
Stephen Cornell), in J. P. Kalt and S. Cornell,
eds., What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions
in American Indian Economic Development, University
of California, 1992, pp. 1-59.
“Culture and Institutions as Public Goods:
American Indian Economic Development as a Problem
of Collective Action” (with Stephen Cornell),
in Terry L. Anderson, ed., Property Rights and
Indian Economies, Rowman and Littlefield, 1992.
“The Regulation of Exhaustible Resource
Markets” (with Shanta Devarajan), Environmental
and Natural Resources Program, Center for Science
and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government,
April 1991.
“Comment on Pierce,” Research in Law
and Economics, Vol. 13, 1991, pp. 57-61.
“Pathways from Poverty: Economic Development
and Institution-Building on American Indian Reservations” (with
Stephen Cornell), American Indian Culture and Research
Journal, 1990.
“The Apparent Ideological Behavior of Legislators:
Testing for Principal?Agent Slack in Political
Institutions” (with Mark A. Zupan), Journal
of Law and Economics, April 1990.
“How Natural Is Monopoly? The Case of Bypass
in Natural Gas Distribution Markets” (with
Harry G. Broadman), Yale Journal on Regulation,
Summer 1989.
“Culture and Institutions as Collective
Goods: Issues in the Modeling of Economic Development
on American Indian Reservations” (with Stephen
Cornell), Project Report, Harvard Project on American
Indian Economic Development, June 1989.
“Public Choice, Culture and American Indian
Economic Development” (with Stephen E. Cornell),
Project Report, Harvard Project on American Indian
Economic Development, July 1988.
“The Political Economy of Protectionism:
Tariffs and Retaliation in the Timber Industry,” in
R. Baldwin, ed., Trade Policy Issues and Empirical
Analysis, University of Chicago Press, 1988.
“The Impact of Domestic Environmental Regulatory
Policy on U.S. International Competitiveness,” International
Competitiveness, A.M. Spence and H.A. Hazard, eds.,
Ballinger Publishing Co., 1988.
“Re-Establishing the Regulatory Bargain
in the Electric Utility Industry,” Discussion
Paper Series, Energy and Environmental Policy Center,
Kennedy School of Government, March 1987, published
as Appendix V in Final Report of the Boston Edison
Review Panel, W. Hogan, B. Cherry and D. Foy, March
1987.
“Natural Gas Policy in Turmoil” (with
Frank C. Schuller), in J. P. Kalt and F. C. Schuller,
eds., Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation:
The Harvard Study on the Future of Natural Gas
Policy, Greenwood-Praeger Press/Quorum Books, 1987.
“Market Power and Possibilities for Competition,” in
J. P. Kalt and F. C. Schuller, eds., Drawing the
Line on Natural Gas Regulation: The Harvard Study
on the Future of Natural Gas Policy, Greenwood-Praeger
Press/Quorum Books, 1987.
“The Political Economy of Coal Regulation:
The Power of the Underground Coal Industry,” in
R. Rogowsky and B. Yandle, eds., The Political
Economy of Regulation, Federal Trade Commission,
GPO, 1986, and in Regulation and Competitive Strategy,
University Press of America, 1989.
“Regional Effects of Energy Price Decontrol:
The Roles of Interregional Trade, Stockholding,
and Microeconomic Incidence” (with Robert
A. Leone), Rand Journal of Economics, Summer 1986.
“A Framework for Diagnosing the Regional
Impacts of Energy Price Policies: An Application
to Natural Gas Deregulation” (with Susan
Bender and Henry Lee), Resources and Energy Journal,
March 1986.
“Exhaustible Resource Price Policy, International
Trade, and Intertemporal Welfare,” February
1986 (revised June 1988), Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 1989.
“Intertemporal Consumer Surplus in Lagged?Adjustment
Demand Models” (with Michael G. Baumann),
Energy Economics Journal, January 1986.
“A Note on Nonrenewable Resource Extraction
Under Discontinuous Price Policy” (with Anthony
L. Otten), Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, December 1985.
“Capture and Ideology in the Economic Theory
of Politics” (with Mark A. Zupan), American
Economic Review, June 1984.
“The Ideological Behavior of Legislators:
Rational On-the-Job Consumption of Just a Residual?” (with
Mark A. Zupan), Harvard Institute of Economic Research,
Discussion Paper No. 1043, March 1984 (revised
November 1984, Stanford University Conference on
The Political Economy of Public Policy, R. Noll,
ed.).
“A Comment on ‘The Congressional-Bureaucratic
System: A Principal Agent Perspective,’” Public
Choice, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht,
The Netherlands, Vol. 44, 1984, pp. 193-95.
“The Creation, Growth and Entrenchment of
Special Interests in Oil Price Policy,” The
Political Economy of Deregulation, Roger G. Noll
and Bruce M. Owen, eds., American Enterprise Institute,
1983.
“The Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation
of Coal Strip Mining,” Natural Resources
Journal, October 1983.
“Oil and Ideology in the United States Senate,” The
Energy Journal, April 1982.
“Public Goods and the Theory of Government,” The
Cato Journal, Fall 1981.
“The Role of Governmental Incentives in
Energy Production” (with Robert S. Stillman),
Annual Review of Energy, Vol. 5, Annual Reviews
Inc., 1980, pp. 1?32.
“Why Oil Prices Should be Decontrolled” (with
Kenneth J. Arrow), Regulation, September/October
1979, pp. 13?17.
“Technological Change and Factor Substitution
in the United States, 1929?67,” International
Economic Review, Spring/Summer 1977.
“The Capital Shortage: Concept and Measurement” (with
George M. von Furstenberg), The Journal of Economics
and Business, Spring/Summer 1977, pp. 198?210.
“Problems of Stabilization in an Inflationary
Environment: Discussion of Three Papers,” 1975
Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics
Section: American Statistical Association Annual
Meetings, pp. 20?22.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH: RESEARCH REPORTS AND MONOGRAPHS
“The Costs, Benefits, and Public Policy
Merits of the Proposed Western Navajo-Hopi Lake
Powell Pipeline” (with Jonathan B. Taylor
and Kenneth W. Grant II), December 22, 1999.
“A Public Policy Evaluation of the Arizona
State Land Department’s Treatment of the
Island Lands Trust Properties at Lake Havasu City” (with
Jonathan B. Taylor and Matthew S. Hellman), August
16, 1999.
“Reserve-Based Economic Development: Impacts
and Consequences for Caldwell Land Claims” (with
Kenneth W. Grant, Eric C. Henson, and Manley A.
Begay, Jr.), August 10, 1999.
“Policy Recommendations for the Indonesian
Petrochemical Industry” (with Robert Lawrence,
Henry Lee, Sri Mulyani and LPEM, and DeWitt & Company),
March 1, 1999.
“American Indian Gaming Policy and Its Socio-Economic
Effects: A Report to the National Gambling Impact
Study Commission” (with Stephen Cornell,
Matthew Krepps, and Jonathan Taylor), July 31,
1998.
Preliminary Report in Response to an IRS Report
(with David Reishus), August 8, 1997, and Preliminary
Report Concerning the Value of a Business Opportunity
(with David Reishus), September 12, 1997. Reports
prepared on behalf of a large international petroleum
company in connection with IRS tax assessment.
“Public Interest Assessment of the Proposed
BLM/Del Webb Land Exchange in Nevada,” report
submitted to the U.S. Department of the Interior
on behalf of Del Webb Conservation Holding Corporation,
June 25, 1996.
“Politics Versus Policy in the Restructuring
Debate,” The Economics Resource Group, Inc.,
funded by Northeast Utilities System Companies,
June 1995.
“Indexing Natural Gas Pipeline Rates” (with
Amy B. Candell, Sheila M. Lyons, Stephen D. Makowka,
and Steven R. Peterson), The Economics Resource
Group, Inc., April 1995.
“An Economic Analysis of Electricity Industry
Restructuring in New England” (with Adam
B. Jaffe), The Economics Resource Group, Inc.,
funded by Northeast Utilities System Companies,
April 1995.
“Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade
Policy: Do They Matter to the Political Economy
of the Lumber Dispute?” Faculty Research
Working Paper Series, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, September 1994.
“Oversight of Regulated Utilities' Fuel
Supply Contracts: Achieving Maximum Benefit from
Competitive Natural Gas and Emission Allowance
Markets” (with Adam B. Jaffe), The Economics
Resource Group, Inc., funded by Enron Gas Services
Corporation, April 1993.
“Incentives and Taxes: Improving the Proposed
BTU Tax and Fostering Competition in Electric Power
Generation,” Harvard University and The Economics
Resource Group, Inc., March 10, 1993.
“An Assessment of the Impact of the PT Chandra
Asri Petrochemical Project on Indonesia’s
Economy” (with Henry Lee, Dr. Robert Lawrence,
Dr. Ronald M. Whitefield, and Bradley Blesie),
The Economics Resource Group, Inc., December 1991.
“The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's
Proposed Policy Statement on Gas Inventory Charges
(PL 89-1-000)” (with Charles J. Cicchetti
and William W. Hogan), Discussion Paper Series,
Energy and Environmental Policy Center, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
July 1989.
“The Redesign of Rate Structures and Capacity
Auctioning in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry,” Discussion
Paper Series, Energy and Environmental Policy Center,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
June 1988.
“The Redefinition of Property Rights in
American Indian Reservations: A Comparative Analysis
of Native American Economic Development,” Discussion
Paper Series, Energy and Environmental Policy Center,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
June 1987
“A Review of the Adequacy of Electric Power
Generating Capacity in the United States, 1985?93
and 1993?Beyond” (with James T. Hamilton
and Henry Lee), Discussion Paper Series, Energy
and Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, June
1986.
“Energy Issues in Thailand: An Analysis
of the Organizational and Analytical Needs of the
Thailand Development Research Institute,” Harvard
Institute for International Development, March
1986.
“Possibilities for Competition in the Gas
Industry: The Roles of Market Structure and Contracts,” prepared
for Harvard Study on the Future of Natural Gas
Policy, Working Group Meeting, October 1985.
“Natural Gas Decontrol, Oil Tariffs, and
Price Controls: An Intertemporal Comparison,” Energy
and Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, April
1985.
“Market Structure, Vertical Integration,
and Long-Term Contracts in the (Partially) Deregulated
Natural Gas Industry,” Discussion Paper Series,
Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Harvard
University, April 1985.
“Can a Consuming Region Win under Gas Decontrol?:
A Model of Income Accrual, Trade, and Stockholding” (with
Robert A. Leone), Discussion Paper Series, Energy
and Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, February
1984.
“Natural Gas Decontrol: A Northwest Industrial
Perspective” (with Susan Bender and Henry
Lee), Discussion Paper Series, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, November
1983.
“Natural Gas Decontrol: A Northeast Industrial
Perspective” (with Henry Lee and Robert A.
Leone), Discussion Paper Series, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, October
1982.
“Television Industry Self?Regulation: Protecting
Children from Competition in Broadcasting” (with
George J. Holder), Harvard Institute of Economic
Research, Discussion Paper No. 896, April 1982.
“The Use of Political Pressure as a Policy
Tool During the 1979 Oil Supply Crisis” (with
Stephen Erfle and John Pound), Discussion Paper
Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, April 1981.
“Problems of Minority Fuel Oil Dealers” (with
Henry Lee), Discussion Paper Series, Energy and
Environmental Policy Center, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, April 1981.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY
Statement to U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Lessons in Economic Development, Hearings Regarding
International Lessons in Economic Development,
September 12, 2002 (hearings cancelled September
11, 2002).
Statement to U.S. House of Representatives Committee
on Government Reform, Subcommittee for Energy Policy,
Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, Hearings
Regarding Natural Gas Capacity, Infrastructure
Constraints, and Promotion of Healthy Natural Gas
Markets, Especially in California, October 16,
2001.
Statement to U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Harvard University Native American Program, Hearings
Regarding Native American Program Initiatives at
the College and University Level (with Dr. Ken
Pepion), June 21, 2001.
Statement to The Surface Transportation Board,
Public Views on Major Rail Consolidations (with
José A. Gómez-Ibáñez),
November 17, 2000, and January 11, 2001.
Statement to U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Impact of Federal Development Initiatives in Indian
Country, Hearing Regarding S.2052, of September
27, 2000.
Foreword to Impossible to Fail, J.Y. Jones, Hillsboro
Press, 1999.
Statement to U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee
on Energy and Mineral Resources, Federal Oil Royalty
Valuation (HB 3334), Hearing of May 21, 1998.
Statement to the National Gambling Impact Study
Commission, Economic Impact of Gaming by American
Indian Tribes, Hearing of March 16, 1998.
“Measures Against Tribes Are Counterproductive,” editorial
(with Jonathan B. Taylor), Indian Country Today,
September 22-29, 1997.
“American Indian Economic Development,” Tribal
Pathways Technical Assistant Program Newsletter,
February 1997, p. 3.
Statement to U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Economic Development in Indian Country, Hearing
of September 17, 1996.
“A Harvard Professor Looks at the Effects
of Allowing U.S. Hunters to Import Polar Bear Trophies,” Safari
Times, April 1994.
Statement to U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee,
Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity and Economic
Growth, The Economic Impact of Lower Oil Price,
Hearing of March 12, 1986.
“Administration Backsliding on Energy Policy” (with
Peter Navarro), Wall Street Journal, editorial
page, February 9, 1982.
Statement to the Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, U.S. Senate, Government Responses to
Oil Supply Disruptions, Hearing of July 28?29,
1981, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981, pp.
623?630 and 787?801.
“Staff Report on Effects of Restrictions on Advertising and Commercial
Practice in the Professions: The Case of Optometry,” Ronald S. Bond, et
al., Executive Summary, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, September
1980.
“Redistribution of Wealth in Federal Oil
Policy,” San Diego Business Journal, August
18, 1980, pp. 22?3.
“The Energy Crisis—Moral Equivalent
of Civil War” (with Peter Navarro), Regulation,
January/February 1980, pp. 41?43.
“Windfall Profits Tax Will Reap Bonanza—But
For Whom?” (with Peter Navarro), The Miami
Herald, December 23, 1979, editorial page.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“The State of the Railroad Industry and
the Challenges Ahead” Briefing of Roger Nober,
Chairman, US Surface Transportation Board, Association
of American Railroads, January 28, 2003.
“The Wealth of American Indian Nations:
Culture and Institutions,” Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston, December 11, 2002.
“The Roots of California’s Energy
Crisis: Law, Policy, Politics, and Economics,” Regulation
Seminar, Center for Business and Government, Kennedy
School, Harvard University, November 7, 2002.
“Public Policy Foundations of Nation Building
in Indian Country,” National Symposium on
Legal Foundations of American Indian Self-Governance,” Mashantucket
Pequot Nation, February 9, 2001.
“Twenty-Five Years of Self-Determination:
Lessons form the Harvard Project on American Indian
Economic Development,” Udall Center for Studies
in Public Policy, University of Arizona, November
13-14, 1999.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual DOE-NARUC Natural
Gas Conference, Orlando, FL, February 1995.
Keynote Address, “Sovereignty and American
Indian Economic Development,” Arizona Town
Hall, Grand Canyon, AZ, October 1994.
“Is the Movement Toward a Less-Regulated,
More Competitive LDC Sector Inexorable?, (Re)Inventing
State/Federal Partnerships: Policies for Optimal
Gas Use,” U.S. Department of Energy and The
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, February 1994.
“Cultural Evolution and Constitutional Public
Choice: Institutional Diversity and Economic Performance
on American Indian Reservations,” Festschrift
in Honor of Armen A. Alchian, Western Economic
Association, Vancouver, BC, July 1994.
“Precedent and Legal Argument in U.S. Trade
Policy: Do they Matter to the Political Economy
of the Lumber Dispute?” National Bureau of
Economic Research, Conference on Political Economy
of Trade Protection, February, September 1994.
“The Redesign of Rate Structures and Capacity
Auctioning in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry,” Natural
Gas Supply Association, Houston, TX, March 1988.
“Property Rights and American Indian Economic
Development,” Pacific Research Institute
Conference, Alexandria, VA, May 1987.
“The Development of Private Property Markets
in Wilderness Recreation: An Assessment of the
Policy of Self-Determination by American Indians,” Political
Economy Research Center Conference, Big Sky, MT,
December 4?7, 1985.
“Lessons from the U.S. Experience with Energy
Price Regulation,” International Association
of Energy Economists Delegation to the People's
Republic of China, Beijing and Shanghai, PRC, June
1985.
“The Impact of Domestic Regulation on the
International Competitiveness of American Industry,” Harvard/NEC
Conference on International Competition, Ft. Lauderdale,
FL, March 7?9, 1985.
“The Welfare and Competitive Effects of
Natural Gas Pricing,” American Economic Association
Annual Meetings, December 1984.
“The Ideological Behavior of Legislators,” Stanford
University Conference on the Political Economy
of Public Policy, March 1984.
“Principal?Agent Slack in the Theory of
Bureaucratic Behavior,” Columbia University
Center for Law and Economic Studies, 1984.
“The Political Power of the Underground
Coal Industry,” FTC Conference on the Strategic
Use of Regulation, March 1984.
“Decontrolling Natural Gas Prices: The Intertemporal
Implications of Theory,” International Association
of Energy Economists Annual Meetings, Houston,
TX, November 1981.
“The Role of Government and the Marketplace
in the Production and Distribution of Energy,” Brown
University Symposium on Energy and Economics, March
1981.
“A Political Pressure Theory of Oil Pricing,” Conference
on New Strategies for Managing U.S. Oil Shortages,
Yale University, November 1980.
“The Politics of Energy,” Eastern
Economic Association Annual Meetings, 1977.
WORKSHOPS PRESENTED
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; University of
Indiana; University of Montana; Oglala Lakota College;
University of New Mexico; Columbia University Law
School; Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University; MIT;
University of Chicago; Duke University; University
of Rochester; Yale University; Virginia Polytechnic
Institute; U.S. Federal Trade Commission; University
of Texas; University of Arizona; Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas; U.S. Department of Justice; Rice
University; Washington University; University of
Michigan; University of Saskatchewan; Montana State
University; UCLA; University of Maryland; National
Bureau of Economic Research; University of Southern
California
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mediator (with Keith G. Allred), Nez Perce Tribe
and the North Central Idaho Jurisdictional Alliance,
MOU signed December 2002.
Chief Mediator In the Matter of the White Mountain
Apache Tribe v. United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, re: endangered species management authority,
May-December, 1994
Steering Committee, National Park Service, 75th
Anniversary Symposium, 1991-93
Board of Trustees, Foundation for American Communications,
1989 to present
Editorial Board, Economic Inquiry, 1988 to present
Advisory Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Energy Division, 1987 to 1989
Commissioner, President's Aviation Safety Commission,
1987?88
Principal Lecturer in the Program of Economics
for Journalists, Foundation for American Communications,
teaching economic principles to working journalists
in the broadcast and print media, 1979 to present
Lecturer in the Economics Institute for Federal
Administrative Law Judges, University of Miami
School of Law, 1983 to 1991
Research Fellow, Energy and Environmental Policy
Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, 1981 to 1987
Editorial Board, MIT Press Series on Regulation
of Economic Activity, 1984 to 1992
Research Advisory Committee, American Enterprise
Institute, 1979 to 1985
Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1979 to
1984
Referee for American Economic Review, Bell Journal
of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Political
Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Science
Magazine, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,
Social Choice and Welfare, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, MIT Press, North?Holland Press, Harvard
University Press, American Indian Culture and Research
Journal
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Native Americans at the New Millennium: Nation
Building (University-wide, graduate and undergraduate);
Introduction to Environment and Natural Resource
Policy (Graduate, Kennedy School of Government);
Seminar in Positive Political Economy (Graduate,
Kennedy School of Government); Intermediate Microeconomics
(Graduate, Kennedy School of Government); Natural
Resources and Public Lands Policy (Graduate, Kennedy
School of Government); Economics of Regulation
and Antitrust (Graduate); Economics of Regulation
(Undergraduate); Introduction to Energy and Environmental
Policy (Graduate, Kennedy School of Government);
Graduate Seminar in Industrial Organization and
Regulation; Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate);
Principles of Economics (Undergraduate); Seminar
in Energy and Environmental Policy (Graduate, Kennedy
School of Government)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in the Teaching
of the Principles of Economics, Harvard University,
1978-79 and 1979-80
Chancellor's Intern Fellowship in Economics, 9/73
to 7/78, one of two awarded in 1973, University
of California, Los Angeles
Smith-Richardson Dissertation Fellowship in Political
Economy, Foundation for Research in Economics and
Education, 6/77 to 9/77, UCLA
Summer Research Fellowship, UCLA Foundation, 6/76
to 9/76
Dissertation Fellowship, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, 9/77 to 6/78
Four years of undergraduate academic scholarships,
1969-1973; graduated with University Distinction
and Departmental Honors, Stanford University
Research funding sources have included: The National
Science Foundation; USAID (IRIS Foundation); Pew
Charitable Trust; Christian A. Johnson Family Endeavor;
The Ford Foundation; The Northwest Area Foundation;
the U.S. Department of Energy; the Research Center
for Managerial Economics and Public Policy, UCLA
Graduate School of Management; the MIT Energy Laboratory;
Harvard’s Energy and Environmental Policy
Center; the Political Economy Research Center;
the Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford
University; the Federal Trade Commission; and Resources
for the Future
Contact:
Tel. (617) 495-4966
Email: joe_kalt@harvard.edu
