Edward MacMullan
Edward MacMullan has been a senior economist with ECONorthwest since 1990. His areas of experience include litigation support for antitrust, intellectual property, right-of-way, and healthcare topics, and assessing the economic effects of public policies that affect natural-resource management. Before joining ECONorthwest he studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the Energy Studies Unit of the University of Strathclyde where he assessed the socioeconomic impacts of energy development projects in the highlands and islands of Scotland.
His recent consulting and litigation-support work includes calculating restoration costs at mining Superfund sites, assessing alleged anti-trust behavior in markets for hospital and health-care services, reviewing the literature on the economics of Low-Impact Development, conducting an economic benefit-cost analysis of greenroofs, assessing the economic effects of violations of trade secrets on manufacturing firms; studying the impacts of approving a hospital's Certificate-of-Need application on market concentration; evaluating municipal right-of-way fees challenged by telecommunications firms; and studying the economic factors associated with avoiding and complying with regional water quality regulations and county permitting processes.
Ed is also a proud recent graduate of the New Orleans School of Cooking.