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Dr. Tardiff has more than 30 years of academic and consulting experience. He has participated in numerous legal and regulatory proceedings regarding telecommunications economics anti-trust and regulation issues. This experience has included extensive examination of costing methodologies used to establish prices in rate-regulated industries. His work has included the telecommunications transportation energy and public utility industries and he has published extensively in economics telecommunications and transportation journals.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Huron Tim served as a vice president in the telecommunication practice at NERA Economic Consulting. During his career he has served as the director of Marketing Research and senior member of the transportation practice at Charles River Associates Inc. and assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Division of Environmental Studies at the University of California Davis.
His research has addressed the demand cost and competitive aspects of converging technologies including wireless and broadband. He has evaluated pricing policies for increasingly competitive telecommunications markets including appropriate mechanisms for pricing access services to competitors and studied actual and potential competition for services provided by incumbent telephone operating companies. Most recently he has analyzed the effects of convergence and growing intermodal competition on whether incumbent firms should be considered dominant in the provision of certain services and the regulatory and antitrust implication of such determinations.
Since the passage of the United States Telecommunications Act he has participated in interconnection arbitrations unbundled element proceedings universal service investigation applications by incumbent local exchange carriers for authorization to provide interLATA long-distance and implementation of the Triennial Review Order rules for unbundling network elements in over 25 states and before the United States Federal Communications Commission. His international research and consulting experience includes studies and expert reports on telecommunication competition issues in Canada Japan New Zealand Peru Australia and Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Tardiff has also participated in class action litigation in regulated (or partially regulated) industries. This experience includes analysis of the communality of proposed class members in an antitrust claim that a regional telephone operator failed to implement the provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act as well as evaluation of the damage claims of plaintiffs in securities actions involving providers of telecommunications network services.
Most recently he has provided expert reports and testimonies on the reasonableness from an economic perspective of increases in the rates international carriers at Los Angeles International Airport pay for use of terminal space.
Education & Certifications
Ph.D. Social Sciences University of California Irvine CA
Bachelor of Science Mathematics California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA
Professional Associations
Member American Economic Association
Associate Member American Bar Association
Fellowships grants and awards
First Place Dissertation Contest of the Transportation Science Section of the Operations Research Society of America.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Grant (Engineering Division) 1976-1978.
NSF Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Social Sciences 1973-1974.
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship 1972-1974.
Public Health Service Traineeship 1971-1972. | 