Alex Rothenberg is an economist with the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is an applied micro-economist with a background in applied econometrics, program evaluation, development, international trade, transportation, and urban economics. He has extensive experience with structural econometric modeling and reduced form techniques. Rothenberg's ongoing research involves work on transport policies in Jakarta, agglomeration externalities and spatial policies in Indonesia, an evaluation of Indonesia's Transmigration program, and an examination of the impact of infrastructure improvements on firm entry and employment in Indonesia.
Prior to joining RAND, Rothenberg was a research assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and a graduate student instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. Rothenberg received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in May 201