James N. Dertouzos

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Director, RAND Law, Business, and Regulation; Director, RAND Institute for Civil Justice; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

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Education

Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University

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Overview

Biography

James N. Dertouzos is director of RAND Law, Business, and Regulation (LBR) and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS). During his 30-year tenure at RAND, Dertouzos has led more than 100 research projects and served in a variety of management positions, including associate head of the Economics and Statistics Department, associate corporate research manager, and resident scholar in economics. He has taught courses at Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Southern California, as well as at PRGS. His research and publications cover a wide range of public policy issues, including public-sector management, the industrial organization of mass media, and military manpower. With support from the Sloan Foundation, he previously directed a project on the legal and economic consequences of the increasing labor market liability of employers.

His RAND publications include Earthquake Insurance and Disaster Assistance: The Effect of Catastrophe Obligation Guarantees on Federal Disaster-Assistance Expenditures in California (Tom LaTourrette et al., 2010); The Cost-Effectiveness of Military Advertising (2009); Performance Evaluation and Army Recruiting (James N. Dertouzos and Steven Garber, 2008); and The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery: Options for Future Research (James N. Dertouzos et al., 2008).

Dertouzos received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

Effectiveness of military advertising
Economic costs and implications of high-technology hardware theft
Economic and legal implications of electronic discovery
Litigation outcomes in wrongful termination cases
Value of television programming

Selected Publications

Dertouzos, James N., and Steven Garber, Is Military Advertising Effective? An Estimation Methodology and Applications to Recruiting in the 1980s and 90s, RAND Corporation (MR-1591-OSD), 2003

Dertouzos, James N., and Steven S. Wildman "Regulatory Standards: The Effect of Broadcast Signals on Cable Television," in Noll, Roger G., and Monroe E. Price, eds., A Communications Cornucopia: Markle Foundation Essays on Information Policy, The Brookings Institution, 1998

Civil Justice

Biography

James N. Dertouzos is director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). During his 30-year tenure at RAND, he has led more than 100 research projects and served in a variety of management positions, including associate head of the Economics and Statistics Department, associate corporate research manager, and resident scholar in economics. He has taught courses at Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Southern California. His research and publications cover a wide range of public policy issues, including public-sector management, the industrial organization of mass media, and military manpower. With support from the Sloan Foundation, he previously directed an ICJ project on the legal and economic consequences of the increasing labor market liability of employers.

Dertouzos received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.