Richard Arnott
Richard Arnott
Professor of Economics
University of California, Riverside
Richard.arnott@ucr.edu
Professor Arnott received his S.B. in Urban Studies from MIT in 1969 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1975. He was on the faculty at Queen’s University, Canada from 1975 to 1988 and at Boston College from 1988 to 2007, and has visited many universities, including Oxford, Stanford, Princeton, UBC, Canterbury (NZ), Melbourne, Munich, and DELTA (Paris). While he has published in several areas of microeconomic theory, he is primarily an urban economic theorist. He has published over 100 articles, edited several books, served on over twenty editorial boards, and edited two journals. His current research focuses on the economics of downtown parking and traffic congestion and on urban transportation/land use/environmental forecasting.