Dr. Werner Sichel,
Ph.D, Northwestern University, 1964
Professor
5441, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5539
Email: Werner.Sichel@wmich.edu

Areas of Interest:
Industrial Organization and Regulation Economics

Current Research:
Public Utility Economics and Telecommunications Industry

Special Honors:
Midwest Economics Association, President, 1995-96

Midwest Business Economics Association, President, 1989-90

Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 1984-85

Who's Who in Antitrust Economics, Antitrust Law and Economics Review, 1981

Fulbright-Hays Senior Lecturer, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1968-69

Selected Publications:

Promoting Competition in Michigan Telecommunication Markets Through Innovative Legislation, (with Donald Alexander), East Lansing: Institute of Public Utilities and Network Indurstries, Michigan State University, 1998.

Networks, Infrastructure and the New Task for Regulation (ed) (with Donald Alexander), Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Economics, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., (with Martin Bronfenbrenner and Wayland Gardner). First Edition, 1984, Second Edition, 1987, Third Edition, 1990.

The State of Economic Science: The Views of Six Nobel Laureates, (ed.) W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1989.

"Principles of Economics Textbooks: Innovation and Product Differentiation--A Response" (to paper by Joseph E. Stiglitz), The Journal of Economic Education, Spring 1988.

Economics Journals and Serials: An Analytical Guide (with Beatrice Sichel), Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Basic Economic Concepts: Microeconomics, Basic Economic Concepts: Macroeconomics (with Peter Eckstein), 1974, 1977, translated into Spanish, 1979, translated into Chinese, Beijing, China: China Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Publishing House, 1986, 1992.

Deregulation--Appraisal Before the Fact (ed.) (with Thomas G. Gies), Ann Arbor: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1982.

"Case Profile -- A S. Langenderfer vs. S.E. Johnson Co., et. al.", Antitrust Law and Economics Review, December 1981.

Applications of Economic Principles in Public Utility Industries (ed.) (with Thoms G. Gies), Ann Arbor: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1981.

Public Utility Rate Making in an Energy Conscious Environment, (ed.), Boulder: Westview Press, 1979.

Economic Advice and Executive Policy: Recommendations from Past Members of the Council of Economic Advisers, (ed.) New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1978.

Salvaging Public Utility Regulation, (ed), Lexington: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1976.

The Economic Effects of Multinational Corporations, (ed.), Ann Arbor: Bureau of Business Research, University of Michigan, 1975.

"The Foreign Competition Omission in Census Concentration Ratios: An Empirical Evaluation", The Antitrust Bulletin, Spring 1975.

Public Utility Regulation, (ed.), Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1975.

"Vertical Integration as a Dynamic Industry Concept," The Antitrust Bulletin, Fall 1973.

"The Economic Effects on Yugoslavia of the Invasion of Czechoslovakia," Chapter 10, pp. 169-189 in The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Its Effects on Eastern Europe, E. J. Czerwinski, Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, Editors, New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1972.

"The Threat to Market Socialism: The Case of Yugoslavia," The Antitrust Bulletin, XVI (Summer, 1971).

"Conglomerateness: Size and Monopoly Control," Conglomerate Mergers and Acquisitions: Opinion and Analysis, St. John's Law Review, 1970.

Antitrust Policy and Economic Welfare, (ed.) Ann Arbor: Bureau of Business Research, University of Michigan, 1970.

"Business Reciprocity: An Unsettled antitrust Issue," The Antitrust Bulletin, XIII (Summer, 1968).

"Policy for Using Research Results," MSU Business Topics, Summer 1968.

"The Proctor & Gamble-Clorox Decision and the Economics of Conglomerate Mergers," The Antitrust Bulletin, XII (Winter, 1967).

Industrial Organization and Public Policy: Selected Readings, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967.

"Fire Insurance: Imperfectly Regulated Collusion," The Journal of Risk and Insurance, March 1966.

Department of Economics, College of Arts & Sciences
5307, Friedmann Hall, 1903 West Michigan Avenue
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI 49008
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