John Mayo

John Mayo is Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He also serves as the Executive Director for the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, which he founded in 2002. His research interests lie in the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust, and, more generally, the application of microeconomics to public policy. He has published roughly 70 articles in economics, law and public policy journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. He is also the author of numerous book chapters and monographs, and is the co-author of a comprehensive text, "Government and Business: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation." Mayo’s research and or interviews have appeared in the popular press, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mayo has held a number of senior administrative positions at Georgetown including a term as Dean of the McDonough School of Business. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at both UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. Additionally, he has been the Chief Economist, U.S. Senate Small Business Committee (Democratic Staff), and has served as an advisor and consultant to both public and private agencies. He has participated in a number of regulatory and antitrust proceedings and has testified before both Congress and state legislative and regulatory bodies on a number of matters, including monopolization, price fixing, mergers, and regulatory policy.

Mayo received his Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and his B.A. from Hendrix College.

Education

• Washington University in St Louis - Ph.D.
• Washington University - M.A.
• Hendrix College - B.A.

Publications

Books (1)

John W. Mayo, David Kaserman. Government and Business: the economics of antitrust and regulation. Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press, 1995.

Articles in Journals (17)

John W. Mayo, David E.M. Sappington. "When Do Auctions Ensure the Welfare-Maximizing Allocation of Scarce Inputs." RAND Journal of Economics, 47, 1 (2016): 186-206.

T. Randolph Beard, Jeffrey T. Macher and John W. Mayo. ""Can You Hear Me NOw? Exit, Voice and Loyalty Under Increasing Competition"." Journal of Law and Economics, 58 (2015): 717-745.

Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo. "Influencing public policymaking: Firm-, industry-, and country-level determinants." Strategic Management Journal, 36, 13 (2015): 2021–2038.

Larry Downes, John W. Mayo. "The Evolution of Innovation and the Evolution of Regulation: Emerging Tensions and Emerging Opportunities in Communications." CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy (2014): 10-51.

John W. Mayo. "The Evolution of Regulation: Twentieth Century Lessons and Twenty-First Century Opportunities." Federal Communications Law Journal, 65, 2 (2013): 119-156.

Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo. "The World of Regulatory Influence." Journal of Regulatory Economics, 41, 1 (2012)

John W. Mayo, Mark Burton, David Kaserman. "Common Costs and Cross-Subsidies: Misestimation Versus Misallocation." Contemporary Economic Policy (2009)

John W. Mayo, Catherine H. Tinsley. "Warm Glow and Charitable Giving: Why the Wealthy Do Not Give More to Charity." Journal of Economic Psychology, 30 (2009): 490-499.

John W. Mayo. "It's No Time to Regulate Wireless Telephony." The Economist's Voice, 5, 1 (2008): 1-4.

John W. Mayo, T. Randolph Beard, David Kaserrman. "A Graphical Approach to the Stiglerian Theory of Regulation." Journal of Economic Education, 38, 4 (2007): 447-451.

John W. Mayo, Mark Burton, Jeffrey T. Macher. "Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don't Households Pick up the Lifeline?." The B. E. Journal of Economic Ananlysis & Policy, 7, 1 (2007)

Mayo, John W. and Mirjam Schiffer. "“Antitrust Economics Meets Antitrust Psychology: A View From the Firms”." International Journal of the Economics of Business, 13, July (2006): 281-306.

John Mayo, T. Randolph Beard and David Kaserman. "A Graphical Exposition of the Economic Theory of Regulation." Economic Inquiry, 41 (2003): 592-606.

John Mayo, T. Randolph Beard, David L. Kaserman. "On the Impotence of Imputation." Telecommunications Policy, 27, 8-9 (2003): 585-595.

John Mayo, T. Randolph Beard and David Kaserman. "Regulation, Competition, and the Optimal Recovery of Stranded Costs." International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21 (2003): 831-848.

John Mayo, T. Randolph Beard and David Kaserman. "Regulation, Vertical Integration and Sabotage." Journal of Industrial Economics, 49 (2001): 319-334.

John Mayo, Ross Eriksson and David K. Kaserman. "Targeted and Untargeted Subsidy Schemes: Evidence from Post-Divestiture Efforts to Promote Universal Telephone Service." Journal of Law and Economics, 41 (1998): 477-502.

Articles in Books (1)

Mayo, John W.. "The Role of Antitrust in a Deregulating Telecommunication Industry: The Economic Fallacies of Trinko." The Future of Telecommunications Industries, pp. 129-146. New York: Springer Verlag, 2006.