Background
MOHRING, Herbert was born in 1928 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
MOHRING, Herbert was born in 1928 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics with honors, Williams College, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959.
Research associate Willow Run Research Center, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1951-1952. Teaching fellow department economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1952, 53-54. Assistant study director, study director Survey Research Center University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1954-1957.
Research associate Resources for Future, 1957-1958. Research economist Transportation Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1958-1961. Associate professor University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-1967, professor, 1967—1995, professor emeritus, since 1995.
Consultant economic survey Liberia Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1961. Adjunct professor law University Minnesota, 1969—1971. Visiting professor economic York University, 1971—1973, University Toronto, 1972—1973, University British Columbia, 1983, University California, Irvine, 1990, Irvine, since 1996.
Visiting professor political economy Johns Hopkins University, 1974. Visiting professor department economics and statistics National University, Singapore, 1982—1983. Director graduate studies department economics University Minnesota, 1977—1981.
Second lieutenant United States Air Force, 1953.
(Book by Mohring, Herbert, Harwitz, Mitchell)
(Book by Mohring, Herbert)
Author: (with Mitchell Hartwitz) Highway Benefits: An Analytical Framework, 1962 (translations into Japanese), Transportation Economics, 1976. (translations into Japanese and Korean) The Economics of Transport, 1993. Board editors American Economic Review, 1971-1973, Journal Urban Economics, 1979-1990.Contributor articles to professional journals, chapters to books.
I consider myself to be primarily an applied microeconomist — someone who uses the tools of static price theory to explain and to quantify the supply and demand sides of real-world markets. My research has concentrated heavily on transportation markets — as examples, benefits/ cost analysis of transportation improvement, the structure of mass-transit costs when traveller time is considered to be an input to trip production, optimal pricing and subsidy rules for transportation systems, and quantification of the social costs of failure to price transportation systems efficiently. My attention has occasionally strayed to other areas, however.
These include the efficiency implications of the antitrust laws, the foundations of benefits/cost analysis, externalities, and renewable resources. My major current interest is in using consumer choices of, for example, travel modes to infer the values they attach to travel time.
Member American Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Econometric Society.
Married June 12, 1953.