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Chris Carrigan
Fellow, Penn Program on Regulation

Chris Carrigan
Fellow, Penn Program on Regulation

Tel: 215.746.7631
Email: ccarriga@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Government Regulation
  • Law and Economics

Bio

Chris Carrigan is the Regulation Fellow at the Penn Program on Regulation. His research focuses on the politics of regulation and the impacts of organizational structure on outcomes at government agencies. Chris is currently investigating how locating non-regulatory functions with regulators affects both behavior at and performance of these agencies. He is a PhD candidate in the Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago as well as a BA in economics from Davidson College. Previously, Chris worked as a director at two economic consulting firms and a manager in a large financial services company.

Representative Professional Positions

Penn Program on Regulation – Regulation Fellow (2010- )

Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University – Affiliate (2010- )

Chicago Partners – Director, Litigation Consulting (2006-2007)

Huron Consulting Group – Director, Finance and Economic Consulting (2003-2006)

Vanguard Group – Manager, Recordkeeping Services (1997-2001)

Representative Publications

The Politics of Regulation: From New Institutionalism to New Governance, 14 ANN. REV. POL. SCI. 107 (2011) (with Cary Coglianese)
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Minerals Management Service and Deepwater Horizon: What Role Should Capture Play? in Dan Carpenter, Steven Croley & David Moss, eds., PREVENTING CAPTURE: SPECIAL INTEREST INFLUENCE IN REGULATION AND HOW TO LIMIT IT (forthcoming)

Current Working Papers

Government Agency Goal Conflict and Regulatory Failure: Is Breakup the Answer? (forthcoming)

Using Disasters to Assess Regulatory Performance (with Cary Coglianese) (forthcoming)

The Many Flavors of Regulators: Motivational Heterogeneity and Agency Control (forthcoming)

Politics and Price Fixing (forthcoming)

 
Chris Carrigan

Education

  • Ph.D. candidate (pub. policy) - Harvard - '12
  • M.B.A. - University of Chicago - '03
  • B.A. - Davidson College - '94

Courses Taught

  • Policy Analysis
  • Political Economy
  • Microeconomics

Research Areas

  • Regulation
  • Regulatory Policymaking
  • Public Policy and Administration
  • American Politics
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