Her research focuses on the effect of regulatory institutions and their incentives on innovation and technological change, particularly in the electric power industry. She teaches classes in microeconomics, technological change, environmental economics, antitrust and regulation, environmental economics, and history of economic thought, and all of these topics and themes inform her research and other writing. Lynne has a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University and a B.S. in Economics from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Her previous appointments include positions at the College of William and Mary, Price Waterhouse/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the Reason Foundation, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University.