The Mutual Fund Industry – Competition and Investor Welfare

R. Glenn Hubbard is dean of Columbia Business School and the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance. He was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003 and has published more than one hundred articles on investing, banking, energy economics, and public policy. With William Duggan, he is the author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty.

Michael F. Koehn is cofounder and affiliate of Analysis Group, Inc. and specializes in applied microeconomics and finance. His publications concern banking, finance, energy economics, and real estate. He is a coauthor of The Economics of Mutual Fund Markets: Competition Versus Regulation and has taught at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine.

Stanley I. Ornstein is vice president of Analysis Group, Inc. He specializes in applied microeconomics and industrial economics and their applications to issues of competition and regulation. His numerous publications tackle market structure and performance, advertising and competition, exclusive dealing and resale price maintenance, and competition in various industries.

Marc Van Audenrode is a managing principal of Analysis Group, Inc. and a specialist in labor economics, antitrust, econometrics, and public economics. His publications appear in numerous economic journals, and he is a frequent presenter at industry and academic conferences.

Jimmy Royer is a vice president of Analysis Group, Inc. and specializes in econometrics, antitrust, financial economics, and labor economics. He has taught at the Université Laval and the Université de Sherbrooke, and his research and publications cover such topics as limit entry pricing, investment valuation, wage flexibility, and unemployment compensation.