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Ben Johnson
Present position Consulting Economist
Ben Johnson Associates, Inc. ®
Education B.A. with honors, Economics - University of South Florida
M.S., Economics - Florida State University
Ph.D., Economics - Florida State University
Firm experience As its founder and president, Dr. Johnson has developed the firm's approach to
economic analyses. He has prepared and presented expert testimony on more than
300 occasions before state and federal courts and administrative agencies
throughout the United States and Canada, involving the application of economic
theory and principles to public policy, regulation, and management decision-
making.
Dr. Johnson has been actively involved in more than 400 regulatory dockets,
concerning telecommunications and other utilities. His work has spanned a wide
range of different subject areas, involving the application of economic theory and
principles to public policy, revenue requirements, rate of return and rate design
issues.
In the course of this work, Dr. Johnson has analyzed more than 300 telephone
companies, including AT&T, Bell Atlantic subsidiaries, BellSouth subsidiaries,
Cincinnati Bell, GTE subsidiaries, Ameritech subsidiaries, Nevada Bell, Nynex,
Southern New England Telecom, Sprint subsidiaries, US West subsidiaries and
numerous others.
Dr. Johnson's clients have included a wide variety of public agencies and private
corporations. Among the former are regulatory commissions in 14 states and the
District of Columbia; public counsels in 15 states and the District of Columbia;
attorneys general in nine states; the United States Department of Justice--Antitrust
Division; the Canada Department of Communications; the National Association of
State Utility Consumer Advocates; the governments of more than 25 US cities; the
Florida Department of General Services; and the Provincial Government of
Ontario.
Dr. Johnson's corporate and institutional clients have included: AMERICALL,
Arkansas Telephone Company, Inc., BC Rail, Blountsville Telephone Company,
Casco Bank and Trust, Consumers’ Voice, Depositors Bank and Trust, East Maine
Medical Center, the Harris Corporation, Interstate Securities Corporation, J.R.
Simplot Company, LDDS, Liberty Telephone and Communications,
Louisiana/Mississippi Association of Resellers, Merrill Trust Company, Midvale
Telephone Exchange, Network Inc., Nevada Power
Ben Johnson
Company, North American Telephone Company, Pan-Alberta Gas, Ltd., PenBay
Memorial Hospital, PW Ventures, the South Carolina Long Distance Association,
Stanton Telephone Company, Tel America, Teleconnect Company, Teltec Savings
Communications, Inc., and Transcall America.
Professional
and business history
Publications
Ben Johnson Associates, Inc.:
1977—
Consulting Economist
State of Florida:
1975-77
Senior Utility Analyst, Office of Public Counsel
1974-75
Economic Analyst, Office of Public Counsel
Dr. Johnson has authored or co-authored 13 published articles appearing in such
periodicals as The Southern Economic Journal, Proceedings of the Michigan State
University Institute of Public Utilities, Public Utilities Fortnightly, West Virginia Law
Review, Electric Ratemaking, and The New York Times.
Lectures,
conferences and
seminars
Dr. Johnson has lectured to undergraduate classes in economics at Florida State
University on public utility regulation and economic theory and has addressed
conferences and seminars sponsored by the National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners' Subcommittee on Law, the Marquette University College of
Business Administration, the Utah Division of Public Utilities and the University of
Utah, the Competitive Telecommunications Association (COMPTEL), the
Michigan State University Institute of Public Utilities, the National Association of
State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA), the Rural Electrification
Administration, the North Carolina Public Staff Utilities Commission, the North
Carolina State University Department of Economics and Business Center for
Economic and Business Studies, and the University of Florida College of Business
Administration.
Professional
memberships
American Economic Association
Personal references Mr. Robert Gruber
North Carolina Utilities Commission
430 North Salisbury
Raleigh, North Carolina 27611
[phone]
Mr. Jerry Lammers
Kansas Corporation Commission
1500 SW Arrowhead Road
Topeka, Kansas 66604-4027
[phone]