Robert D. Niehaus, Inc., is a professional economic and public policy consulting firm established in 1983 and located in Santa Barbara, California. The founder of the firm, Robert D. Niehaus, Ph.D., remains active in daily management as the company's Principal Economist. The firm specializes in applied analysis of military housing, water resources, environmental resources, industry economics, and community socioeconomic issues. Our clients are the United States armed services, other federal agencies, units of state and local government, and investor-owned utilities. We work throughout California, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific as our clients’ needs dictate. Our interdisciplinary multi-lingual staff offers expertise in economic analysis and forecasting, survey research, policy evaluation, and environmental compliance and impact assessment.

Assessing the social costs and benefits of Federal actions has long been recognized as an appropriate management application of economic analysis. Federal agencies require systematic analysis of alternatives (including continuing the status quo) in order to determine if government action is warranted.

We have a strong record, during all of the years we have been in operation, assisting Federal agencies in cost-effectively achieving their program goals. Our specialization is resource and regional analysis applied to public-sector requirements. We prepare world-wide

• market analyses
• project feasibility studies
• revenue and cost forecasts
• economic-demographic profiles
• impact assessments

We have successfully completed hundreds of projects.