Professor Emeritus Herbert Mohring received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959. His teaching areas focus on applied microeconomics, industrial organization, public finance, resource economics, transportation economics, and urban economics. Professor Mohring's current research involves the benefits and costs of congestion pricing in transportation activities, and the costs of inefficient fishery regulation. E-mail: mohring@umn.edu
Selected publications include: "Congestion," in Jose Gomez Ibanez, William B. Tye, and Clifford Winston, Editors, Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: A Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer, (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1999): 181-222. "The Value of Waiting Time, Travel Time, and a Seat on a Bus," (with John Schroeter and Paitoon Wiboonchutikula), The Rand Journal of Economics, 18, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 40-56. Transportation Economics (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1976). "Optimization and Scale Economies in Urban Bus Transportation," American Economic Review 62, no. 4 (September 1972): 591-604. "Alternative Welfare Gain and Loss Measures," Western Economic Journal 9, no. 4 (December 1971): 349-368. "The Peak Load Problem with Increasing Returns and Pricing Constraints," American Economic Review 60, no. 4 (September 1970): 693-705.