s.mcmullen [at] oregonstate.edu
Fields: Transportation economics, macroeconomic policy, business cycles
Professor McMullen has a variety of interests in the general area of public policy analysis. Most of her work is in the field of transportation economics where she has dealt with issues related to competition, regulation, efficiency, productivity, pricing, congestion, highway finance, environment, and economic development. Her current research involves assessing the distributional and social impacts of highway user fees and examining the impacts of airline code share agreements. She is also interested in business cycles and macroeconomic policy especially as it impacts Oregon and the northwest.
At OSU
Biography
B. Starr McMullen has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley where her work in transportation economics was supported by a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Professor of Economics as well as Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, she served as Chair of the Economics Department from 2001-2005. In addition, she has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, the University of California-Irvine and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Montreal.TRF ). She is a past President of TPUG, the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association (AEA), which is the oldest AEA affiliate group.Journal of the Transportation Research Forum (JTRF) and Transportation Research: Part E and is past editor of Research in Transportation Economics .OTREC ). She is also the administrator for the Furman Fellowships in Transportation Economics.
Professional Accomplishments
My Publications
Conference Paper Journal Article
B. McMullen , Zhang, L. , and Nakahara, K. “Distributional impacts of changing from a gasoline tax to a vehicle-mile tax for light vehicles: A case study of Oregon ” , Transport Policy , vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 359 - 366, 2010.
Journal Article
L. Zhang , McMullen, B. , Valluri, D. , and Nakahara, K. “Vehicle Mileage Fee on Income and Spatial Equity ” , Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board , vol. 2115, pp. 110 - 118, 2009.
Journal Article
Y. Du , McMullen, B. , and Kerkvliet, J. “The economic impact of the ATA/Southwest Airlines code-share agreement ” , Research in Transportation Economics , vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 51 - 60, 2008.
W. - Y. Chen , Bernell, S. , and McMullen, B. “The new co-payment policy under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance: welfare gain or welfare loss? ” , Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research , vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 141 - 149, 2008.
