Research Interest Statement

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.

Biographical Sketch

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. She is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, serving 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.

At the national level Professor McMullen is Vice-President of the Transportation Research Forum (TRF). She is past President of TPUG, the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economics Association (AEA), which is the oldest AEA affiliate group.

Professor McMullen is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum (JTRF) and Transportation Research: Part E and is past editor of Research in Transportation Economics.

At the state level Professor McMullen is in her third term as a member of the Oregon Governor's Council of Economics Advisors and has served two terms on the Oregon Department of Transportation's Highway Cost Allocation Advisory Board.

Professor McMullen was recently named the 2009 Researcher of the Year by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). She is also the administrator for the Furman Fellowships in Transportation Economics.

Selected Publications

Zhang, Lei, B. Starr McMullen, Divya Valluri and Kyle Nakahara "The Short and Long Run Impacts of Vehicle Mileage Fee on Income and Spatial Equity" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2009.

Du, Yan, B. S. McMullen, and J. R. Kerkvliet "The Economic Impact of the ATA/Southwest Airlines Code-Share Agreement", forthcoming in Research in Transportation Economics, 24, 2008:51-60.

Wen-Yi Chen, Stephanie Bernell, and B. Starr McMullen "The New Co-Payment Policy Under Taiwan's National Health Insurance: Welfare Gain or Welfare Loss?" Expert Rev. Pharmacoeconomics Outcome Research 8(2): 141-149, 2008

McMullen, B.S. and D. Noh, "Accounting for Emissions in the Measurement of Transit Agency Efficiency: A Directional Distance Function Approach", Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2007: 1-9.

McMullen, B. Starr "The Evolution of the U.S. Trucking Industry:"1-22 (Chapter 1) in Belman, D. (ed.) Trucking in the Age of Information, Ashgate Press, October 2005.

McMullen, B.S. "The Impact of Information Technology on Motor Carrier Productivity," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, October 2004.

McMullen, B.S. and Okuyama, K. "Productivity Changes in the U.S. Motor Carrier Industry Following Deregulation: A Malmquist Approach," International Journal of Transport Economics, Fall 2000, 27: 335-354.

McMullen, B. S. and M-K. Lee, "Cost Efficiency in the U.S. Motor Carrier Industry Before and After Deregulation: A Stochastic Frontier Approach," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, September 1999, Volume 33, Part 3, pp. 303-318.

Teaching

Professor McMullen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, money and banking, and transportation economics.

Fall 2009:
ECON 515 Graduate Macroeconomics Link
Winter 2010:
ECON 465/565 Transportation Economics Link