Dr. Edward Timmons

Dr. Edward Timmons is a Service Associate Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of the Knee Regulatory Research Center at the John Chambers School of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Lehigh University. His research has been published in scholarly journals including The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Regulatory Economics, Health Economics, The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Health Policy, Monthly Labor Review, and the Southern Economic Journal. His research has been heavily cited by the popular press, by the Federal Trade Commission, the Obama White House, and also in a Senate hearing entitled "License to Compete: Occupational Licensing and the State Action Doctrine." 

He is regularly asked to provide expert testimony in state legislatures across the US on occupational licensing reform. He has also authored more than 100 articles in the popular press in publications including Harvard Business Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer, US News & World Report, The Hill, the Washington Examiner, the Tampa Bay Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, the Arizona Republic, the Tennessean and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. In May of 2014 he worked as a visiting research fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Moncalieri, Italy. He is a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center and a Senior Research Fellow with the Archbridge Institute.