Jose Gomez-Ibanez

Derek C. Bok Research Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

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Harvard Kennedy School

José A. Gómez-Ibáñez is the Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at Harvard University, where he holds a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Design and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has taught courses in economics, infrastructure and transportation policy in both schools.

Professor Gómez-Ibáñez research interests are in transportation, infrastructure, and economic development, and he has authored or edited a half dozen books including:

  • Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts and Discretion (Harvard University Press, 2003);
  • Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: A Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer (with William Tye and Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution Press, 1999);
  • Going Private: The International Experience with Transport Privatization (with John R. Meyer, Brookings Institution Press, 1993);
  • Regulation for Revenue: The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions (with Alan Altshuler, Brookings Institution Press, 1993);
  • Autos, Transit and Cities (with John R. Meyer, Harvard University Press, 1981); and
  • Cases in Microeconomics (with Joseph Kalt, Prentice-Hall, 1990).

At the Kennedy School, Gómez-Ibáñez has served as the faculty chair of the Masters in Public Policy Program (1996-1998), co-chair of the Infrastructure in a Market Economy executive program (1998-2013) and chair of the Social and Urban Policy Area (2007-2012). At the Graduate School of Design he has served as chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design (1984-1988), program director of doctoral programs (1992-1995), and program director of the Masters in Urban Planning Program (2001-2004).

In addition to teaching, research and university administration, Gómez-Ibáñez has served pro bono on a number of government advisory commissions and been a consultant to international agencies, national and state governments and private businesses on infrastructure policy issues.

Professor Gomez-Ibanez received his A.B. in government from Harvard College in 1970 and his M.P.P. and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard in 1972 and 1975, respectively

Selected Publications

Books

  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts and Discretion. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Book Chapters

  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. "Prospects for Private Infrastructure in the United States: The Case of Toll Roads." Municipal Revenues and Land Policies. Ed. Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong. Lincoln Institute, 2010, 399-430.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. "An Overview of the Options." Competition in the Railway Industry: An International Comparative Analysis. Ed. José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and Ginés de Rus. Edward Elgar, 2006.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. “La Reación Contra las Empresas de Servicios Públicos.” Argentina: Crisis, Instituciones, y Crecimiento, Vol. 2. Ed. Santiago Urbiztondo, Pablo Spiller, Diego Petrecolla, et al. Buenos Aires: Fundación de Investigaciones Ecónomicas Latinoamericanas, 2004, 537-546.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and John R. Meyer. "The Roles of Government and Markets in Transport: Lessons from the U.S. Experience." Governance amid Bigger, Better Markets. Ed. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Brookings Institution, 2001, 56-92.

Edited Volumes

  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., ed. Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions. Transportation Research Board, Special Report 298, National Academy Press, 2009.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Gines de Rus, eds. Competition in the Railway Industry: An International Comparative Analysis. Edward Elgar, 2006.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A, and Ginés de Rus, eds. Competition in the Railway Industry: An International Comparative Analysis. Edward Elgar, 2006.

Research Papers/Reports

  • Huang, Edward, Henry Lee, Grant Lovellette, and Jose Gomez-Ibanez. "Transportation Revenue Options: Infrastructure, Emissions, and Congestion." Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Discussion Paper 2010-13, September 2010.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. "Alternatives to Infrastructure Privatization Revisited: Public Enterprise Reform from the 1960s to the 1980s." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS4391, November 2007.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. "Private Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Lessons from Recent Experience." Commission on Growth and Development, Workshop on Global Trends and Challenges, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, September 2007.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Fernanda Ruiz Nuñez. "Inefficient Cities." Working Paper, March 2007.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. "Alternatives to Privatization Revisited: The Options for Infrastructure." Working paper prepared for the World Bank, April 2006.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. “The Future of Private Infrastructure.” Discussion Paper, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, April 2004.
  • Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. "Growth in the Belfast-Dublin Corridor: Past and Future Trends." Belfast-Dublin Corridor Conference Paper, October 2001.

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