Telecommunications

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What Gets Measured Gets Done: Stop Focusing on Irrelevant Broadband Metrics, Communications of the ACM (2011)

Concerns regarding the state of U.S. broadband arises from a combination of focusing on the...

 

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The Path to Universal Broadband: Why We Should Grant Low-Income Subsidies and Use Experiments and Auctions to Determine the Specifics (with Gregory L. Rosston), The Economists' Voice (2011)

Gregory Rosston of Stanford University and Scott Wallsten of the Technology Policy Institute argue that...

 

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How to Create a More Efficient Broadband Universal Service Program by Incorporating Demand and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The existing high-cost fund suffers from two inherent flaws: it does not incorporate how much...

 

Link

From Network Externalities to Broadband Growth Externalities: a Bridge not yet Built (with John W. Mayo), Review of Industrial Organization (2011)

Quantifying the impact of new technologies on economic activity has proven notoriously difficult. Indeed, it...

 

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The Universal Service Fund: What Do High-Cost Subsidies Subsidize?, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The universal service program in the United States currently transfers about $7.5 billion per year...

 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 2: International Comparisons (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

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The Future of Digital Communications Research and Policy, Federal Communications Law Journal (2010)
 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 1: An Empirical Analysis of Metering and Other Price Determinants (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices: Data Appendix (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)
 

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Residential Broadband Competition in the United States (with Colleen Mallahan) (2010)

This paper uses a new FCC dataset on residential broadband subscribership and speeds at the...

 

Link

Enabling Efficient Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum Markets (with John Mayo), Information Economics and Policy (2009)
 

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Understanding International Comparisons: 2009 Update, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2009)
 

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Testimony on Reforming the Universal Service High Cost Fund, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet (2009)
 

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Net Neutrality, Unbundling, and their Effects on International Investment in Next-Generation Networks (with Stephanie Hausladen), Review of Network Economics (2009)

This paper examines the net neutrality debate in countries outside the U.S., particularly in the...

 

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An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband Plan (with Robert Hahn), Policy & Internet (2009)

This paper responds to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's request for guidance in designing a...

 

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Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan, The Economists' Voice (2009)

The newly enacted economic stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to bring broadband to rural areas...

 

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The DTV Coupon Program: A Boon to Retailers, Not Consumers, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

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Understanding International Broadband Comparisons, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

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Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience, Federal Communications Law Journal (2008)

The United States now spends around $7 billion on universal service programs—subsidies intended to ensure...

 

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Testimony on Broadband to Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2007)
 

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A Regulatory Play in Two Acts, Regulation (2007)
 

Link

What U.S. Broadband Problem? (with Seth Sacher), CNET (2006)
 

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Broadband and Unbundling Regulations in OECD Countries, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)

Broadband penetration and available speeds vary widely across OECD countries. Policymakers around the world, and...

 

Link

Debate Over 'Net Neutrality' is Misplaced (with Robert Hahn), Financial Times (2006)
 

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Telecommunications Regulation in U.S. States: Its Rise and Impacts in the Early Twentieth Century, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)
 

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The Economics of Net Neutrality (with Robert W. Hahn), The Economists' Voice (2006)

Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten argue that mandating net neutrality, like most other forms of...

 

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Universal Telecommunications Service in India (with Roger G. Noll), India Policy Forum (2006)
 

Link

Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Economic History (2005)

This article uses an original dataset to test the effects of government monopoly service, competition,...

 

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Broadband Penetration: An Empirical Analysis of State and Federal Policies, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2005)
 

Link

Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries, Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
 

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New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database (with George Clarke, Luke Haggarty, Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, Mary Shirley, and Lixin Colin Xu), Review of Network Economics (2004)

We construct comprehensive and consistent datasets on telecommunications and electricity regulations in developing countries through...

 

Link

Cheap Net Phones Face the Threat of a Tax Hangup, San Jose Mercury News (2004)
 

Link

Internet Telephones: Hanging Up on Regulations? (with Robert W. Crandall, Robert W. Hahn, and Robert E. Litan), Milken Institute Review (2004)
 

Link

Privatizing Monopolies in Developing Countries: The Real Effects of Exclusivity Periods in Telecommunications, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2004)

Many developing countries have given newly privatized incumbent network utilities, especially telecommunications, exclusive rights to...

 

Link

Of Carts and Horses: Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms, Journal of Policy Reform (2003)

In the early 1990s, many advocated quick privatization of state‐owned monopolies in developing countries, assuming...

 

Link

Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers (with George RG Clarke), Infrastructure for Poor People: Public Policy for Private Provision (2003)

Until recently, utility services (telecommunications, power, water, and gas) throughout the world were provided by...

 

Link

An econometric analysis of telecom competition, privatization, and regulation in Africa and Latin America, Journal of Industrial Economics (2001)

This paper explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30...

 

Link

Telecommunications investment and traffic in developing countries: The effects of international settlement rate reforms, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2001)

In 1997 the FCC ordered sharp decreases in international settlement rates (bilaterally negotiated telecommunication rates)...

 

Universal Service

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The Path to Universal Broadband: Why We Should Grant Low-Income Subsidies and Use Experiments and Auctions to Determine the Specifics (with Gregory L. Rosston), The Economists' Voice (2011)

Gregory Rosston of Stanford University and Scott Wallsten of the Technology Policy Institute argue that...

 

PDF

How to Create a More Efficient Broadband Universal Service Program by Incorporating Demand and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The existing high-cost fund suffers from two inherent flaws: it does not incorporate how much...

 

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The Universal Service Fund: What Do High-Cost Subsidies Subsidize?, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The universal service program in the United States currently transfers about $7.5 billion per year...

 

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Testimony on Reforming the Universal Service High Cost Fund, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet (2009)
 

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Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience, Federal Communications Law Journal (2008)

The United States now spends around $7 billion on universal service programs—subsidies intended to ensure...

 

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Universal Telecommunications Service in India (with Roger G. Noll), India Policy Forum (2006)
 

Link

Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers (with George RG Clarke), Infrastructure for Poor People: Public Policy for Private Provision (2003)

Until recently, utility services (telecommunications, power, water, and gas) throughout the world were provided by...

 

Antitrust

Broadband

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What Are We Not Doing When We're Online?, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

While Americans are spending an increasing amount of leisure time engaged in online activities, total...

 

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What Gets Measured Gets Done: Stop Focusing on Irrelevant Broadband Metrics, Communications of the ACM (2011)

Concerns regarding the state of U.S. broadband arises from a combination of focusing on the...

 

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The Path to Universal Broadband: Why We Should Grant Low-Income Subsidies and Use Experiments and Auctions to Determine the Specifics (with Gregory L. Rosston), The Economists' Voice (2011)

Gregory Rosston of Stanford University and Scott Wallsten of the Technology Policy Institute argue that...

 

PDF

How to Create a More Efficient Broadband Universal Service Program by Incorporating Demand and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The existing high-cost fund suffers from two inherent flaws: it does not incorporate how much...

 

Link

From Network Externalities to Broadband Growth Externalities: a Bridge not yet Built (with John W. Mayo), Review of Industrial Organization (2011)

Quantifying the impact of new technologies on economic activity has proven notoriously difficult. Indeed, it...

 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 2: International Comparisons (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

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The Future of Digital Communications Research and Policy, Federal Communications Law Journal (2010)
 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 1: An Empirical Analysis of Metering and Other Price Determinants (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices: Data Appendix (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)
 

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Residential Broadband Competition in the United States (with Colleen Mallahan) (2010)

This paper uses a new FCC dataset on residential broadband subscribership and speeds at the...

 

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Understanding International Comparisons: 2009 Update, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2009)
 

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Net Neutrality, Unbundling, and their Effects on International Investment in Next-Generation Networks (with Stephanie Hausladen), Review of Network Economics (2009)

This paper examines the net neutrality debate in countries outside the U.S., particularly in the...

 

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An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband Plan (with Robert Hahn), Policy & Internet (2009)

This paper responds to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's request for guidance in designing a...

 

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Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan, The Economists' Voice (2009)

The newly enacted economic stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to bring broadband to rural areas...

 

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Understanding International Broadband Comparisons, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

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Testimony on Broadband to Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2007)
 

Link

What U.S. Broadband Problem? (with Seth Sacher), CNET (2006)
 

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Broadband and Unbundling Regulations in OECD Countries, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)

Broadband penetration and available speeds vary widely across OECD countries. Policymakers around the world, and...

 

Link

Debate Over 'Net Neutrality' is Misplaced (with Robert Hahn), Financial Times (2006)
 

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The Economics of Net Neutrality (with Robert W. Hahn), The Economists' Voice (2006)

Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten argue that mandating net neutrality, like most other forms of...

 

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Broadband Penetration: An Empirical Analysis of State and Federal Policies, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2005)
 

Link

Cheap Net Phones Face the Threat of a Tax Hangup, San Jose Mercury News (2004)
 

Link

Internet Telephones: Hanging Up on Regulations? (with Robert W. Crandall, Robert W. Hahn, and Robert E. Litan), Milken Institute Review (2004)
 

Iraq

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The Economic Cost of the Iraq War, The Economists' Voice (2006)

Scott Wallsten of the American Enterprise Institute estimates that the true economic costs of the...

 

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The Economic Costs of the War in Iraq (with Katrina Kosec) (2005)
 

Science and Technology Policy

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What Gets Measured Gets Done: Stop Focusing on Irrelevant Broadband Metrics, Communications of the ACM (2011)

Concerns regarding the state of U.S. broadband arises from a combination of focusing on the...

 

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Testimony on The Role of Government in Promoting R&D, U.S. Senate Finance Committee (2011)
 

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Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan, The Economists' Voice (2009)

The newly enacted economic stimulus package includes $7.2 billion to bring broadband to rural areas...

 

Link

Do Science Parks Generate Regional Economic Growth?, Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond (2004)
 

Link

The effects of government-industry R&D programs on private R&D: the case of the Small Business Innovation Research Program, Rand Journal of Economics (2000)

I ask whether government-industry commercial R&D grants increase private R&D. Regressing some measure of innovation...

 

Link

Public-Private Technology Partnerships Promises and Pitfalls (with Joseph Stiglitz), American Behavioral Scientist (1999)

The U.S. government has a long history of supporting private sector research and development (R...

 

Rethinking the Small Business Innovation Research Program, Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works (1999)
 

Sports

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No More Baseball Giveaways, Washington Times (2006)
 

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When the Saints Go Marching Out, Baltimore Sun (2005)
 

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A Suite Deal, Washington Times (2004)
 

Economic History

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Telecommunications Regulation in U.S. States: Its Rise and Impacts in the Early Twentieth Century, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)
 

Link

Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Economic History (2005)

This article uses an original dataset to test the effects of government monopoly service, competition,...

 

Link

Review of The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective, Journal of Economic History (2002)

This book is a collection of papers presented at a workshop in 1999 on the...

 

Spectrum / Wireless

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The Future of Digital Communications Research and Policy, Federal Communications Law Journal (2010)
 

Link

Enabling Efficient Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum Markets (with John Mayo), Information Economics and Policy (2009)
 

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The DTV Coupon Program: A Boon to Retailers, Not Consumers, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

Regulation

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What Gets Measured Gets Done: Stop Focusing on Irrelevant Broadband Metrics, Communications of the ACM (2011)

Concerns regarding the state of U.S. broadband arises from a combination of focusing on the...

 

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How to Create a More Efficient Broadband Universal Service Program by Incorporating Demand and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The existing high-cost fund suffers from two inherent flaws: it does not incorporate how much...

 

PDF

The Universal Service Fund: What Do High-Cost Subsidies Subsidize?, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The universal service program in the United States currently transfers about $7.5 billion per year...

 

Link

Enabling Efficient Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum Markets (with John Mayo), Information Economics and Policy (2009)
 

PDF

Testimony on Reforming the Universal Service High Cost Fund, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet (2009)
 

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Net Neutrality, Unbundling, and their Effects on International Investment in Next-Generation Networks (with Stephanie Hausladen), Review of Network Economics (2009)

This paper examines the net neutrality debate in countries outside the U.S., particularly in the...

 

PDF

The DTV Coupon Program: A Boon to Retailers, Not Consumers, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

PDF

Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience, Federal Communications Law Journal (2008)

The United States now spends around $7 billion on universal service programs—subsidies intended to ensure...

 

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A Regulatory Play in Two Acts, Regulation (2007)
 

PDF

Broadband and Unbundling Regulations in OECD Countries, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)

Broadband penetration and available speeds vary widely across OECD countries. Policymakers around the world, and...

 

PDF

Telecommunications Regulation in U.S. States: Its Rise and Impacts in the Early Twentieth Century, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)
 

PDF

The Economics of Net Neutrality (with Robert W. Hahn), The Economists' Voice (2006)

Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten argue that mandating net neutrality, like most other forms of...

 

PDF

Universal Telecommunications Service in India (with Roger G. Noll), India Policy Forum (2006)
 

Link

Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Economic History (2005)

This article uses an original dataset to test the effects of government monopoly service, competition,...

 

PDF

Broadband Penetration: An Empirical Analysis of State and Federal Policies, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2005)
 

Link

Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries, Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
 

PDF

New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database (with George Clarke, Luke Haggarty, Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, Mary Shirley, and Lixin Colin Xu), Review of Network Economics (2004)

We construct comprehensive and consistent datasets on telecommunications and electricity regulations in developing countries through...

 

Link

Cheap Net Phones Face the Threat of a Tax Hangup, San Jose Mercury News (2004)
 

Link

Internet Telephones: Hanging Up on Regulations? (with Robert W. Crandall, Robert W. Hahn, and Robert E. Litan), Milken Institute Review (2004)
 

Link

Of Carts and Horses: Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms, Journal of Policy Reform (2003)

In the early 1990s, many advocated quick privatization of state‐owned monopolies in developing countries, assuming...

 

Link

An econometric analysis of telecom competition, privatization, and regulation in Africa and Latin America, Journal of Industrial Economics (2001)

This paper explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30...

 

Video

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What Are We Not Doing When We're Online?, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

While Americans are spending an increasing amount of leisure time engaged in online activities, total...

 

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Pricing Strategies in a Digital World (with Laura Martin), Needham Insights (2011)
 

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The DTV Coupon Program: A Boon to Retailers, Not Consumers, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

Cost Benefit Analysis

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How to Create a More Efficient Broadband Universal Service Program by Incorporating Demand and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2011)

The existing high-cost fund suffers from two inherent flaws: it does not incorporate how much...

 

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The Economic Cost of the Iraq War, The Economists' Voice (2006)

Scott Wallsten of the American Enterprise Institute estimates that the true economic costs of the...

 

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What Affects the Quality of Economic Analysis for Life-Saving Investments? (with Robert Hahn, Katrina Kosec, and Peter Neumann), Risk Analysis (2006)
 

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The Economic Costs of the War in Iraq (with Katrina Kosec) (2005)
 

Developing Countries

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Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? Empirical evidence from Latin America (with George RG Clarke and Katrina Kosec), Journal of International Development (2009)

Introducing private sector participation (PSP) into the water and sewerage sectors is difficult and controversial....

 

PDF

Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience, Federal Communications Law Journal (2008)

The United States now spends around $7 billion on universal service programs—subsidies intended to ensure...

 

PDF

Universal Telecommunications Service in India (with Roger G. Noll), India Policy Forum (2006)
 

Link

Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries, Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
 

PDF

New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database (with George Clarke, Luke Haggarty, Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, Mary Shirley, and Lixin Colin Xu), Review of Network Economics (2004)

We construct comprehensive and consistent datasets on telecommunications and electricity regulations in developing countries through...

 

Link

Privatizing Monopolies in Developing Countries: The Real Effects of Exclusivity Periods in Telecommunications, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2004)

Many developing countries have given newly privatized incumbent network utilities, especially telecommunications, exclusive rights to...

 

Link

Investment Climate in China: A Tale of Five Cities (with David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anqing Shi, Shuilin Wang, and Lixin Colin Xu), Transition (2003)
 

Link

Of Carts and Horses: Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms, Journal of Policy Reform (2003)

In the early 1990s, many advocated quick privatization of state‐owned monopolies in developing countries, assuming...

 

Link

Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers (with George RG Clarke), Infrastructure for Poor People: Public Policy for Private Provision (2003)

Until recently, utility services (telecommunications, power, water, and gas) throughout the world were provided by...

 

Link

An econometric analysis of telecom competition, privatization, and regulation in Africa and Latin America, Journal of Industrial Economics (2001)

This paper explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30...

 

Link

Telecommunications investment and traffic in developing countries: The effects of international settlement rate reforms, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2001)

In 1997 the FCC ordered sharp decreases in international settlement rates (bilaterally negotiated telecommunication rates)...

 

Immigration / Globalization

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How Globalization Stabilizes Poor Countries, Project Syndicate (2003)
 

Regional Development

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Do Science Parks Generate Regional Economic Growth?, Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond (2004)
 

Link

Investment Climate in China: A Tale of Five Cities (with David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anqing Shi, Shuilin Wang, and Lixin Colin Xu), Transition (2003)
 

Link

An Empirical Test of Geographic Knowledge Spillovers Using Geographic Information Systems and Firm-Level Data, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2001)

Most research on economic geography focuses on large geographic areas, such as nations and states....

 

Book Reviews

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Review of The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective, Journal of Economic History (2002)

This book is a collection of papers presented at a workshop in 1999 on the...

 

Privatization

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Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? Empirical evidence from Latin America (with George RG Clarke and Katrina Kosec), Journal of International Development (2009)

Introducing private sector participation (PSP) into the water and sewerage sectors is difficult and controversial....

 

Link

The effects of ownership and benchmark competition: An empirical analysis of U.S. water systems (with Katrina Kosec), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2008)

Should governments or private firms own water systems? Can yardstick, or benchmark, competition effectively discipline...

 

PDF

Telecommunications Regulation in U.S. States: Its Rise and Impacts in the Early Twentieth Century, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)
 

Link

Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Economic History (2005)

This article uses an original dataset to test the effects of government monopoly service, competition,...

 

Link

Privatizing Monopolies in Developing Countries: The Real Effects of Exclusivity Periods in Telecommunications, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2004)

Many developing countries have given newly privatized incumbent network utilities, especially telecommunications, exclusive rights to...

 

Link

Of Carts and Horses: Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms, Journal of Policy Reform (2003)

In the early 1990s, many advocated quick privatization of state‐owned monopolies in developing countries, assuming...

 

Link

An econometric analysis of telecom competition, privatization, and regulation in Africa and Latin America, Journal of Industrial Economics (2001)

This paper explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30...

 

Water

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Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? Empirical evidence from Latin America (with George RG Clarke and Katrina Kosec), Journal of International Development (2009)

Introducing private sector participation (PSP) into the water and sewerage sectors is difficult and controversial....

 

Link

The effects of ownership and benchmark competition: An empirical analysis of U.S. water systems (with Katrina Kosec), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2008)

Should governments or private firms own water systems? Can yardstick, or benchmark, competition effectively discipline...

 

Link

Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers (with George RG Clarke), Infrastructure for Poor People: Public Policy for Private Provision (2003)

Until recently, utility services (telecommunications, power, water, and gas) throughout the world were provided by...

 

Competition

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Residential Broadband Competition in the United States (with Colleen Mallahan) (2010)

This paper uses a new FCC dataset on residential broadband subscribership and speeds at the...

 

Link

The effects of ownership and benchmark competition: An empirical analysis of U.S. water systems (with Katrina Kosec), International Journal of Industrial Organization (2008)

Should governments or private firms own water systems? Can yardstick, or benchmark, competition effectively discipline...

 

Link

Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Economic History (2005)

This article uses an original dataset to test the effects of government monopoly service, competition,...

 

Link

An econometric analysis of telecom competition, privatization, and regulation in Africa and Latin America, Journal of Industrial Economics (2001)

This paper explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30...

 

Pricing

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Pricing Strategies in a Digital World (with Laura Martin), Needham Insights (2011)
 

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 2: International Comparisons (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

PDF

Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 1: An Empirical Analysis of Metering and Other Price Determinants (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

PDF

Residential and Business Broadband Prices: Data Appendix (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)
 

PDF

Residential Broadband Competition in the United States (with Colleen Mallahan) (2010)

This paper uses a new FCC dataset on residential broadband subscribership and speeds at the...

 

R&D

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Testimony on The Role of Government in Promoting R&D, U.S. Senate Finance Committee (2011)
 

Link

An Empirical Test of Geographic Knowledge Spillovers Using Geographic Information Systems and Firm-Level Data, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2001)

Most research on economic geography focuses on large geographic areas, such as nations and states....

 

Link

The effects of government-industry R&D programs on private R&D: the case of the Small Business Innovation Research Program, Rand Journal of Economics (2000)

I ask whether government-industry commercial R&D grants increase private R&D. Regressing some measure of innovation...

 

Rethinking the Small Business Innovation Research Program, Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works (1999)
 

International

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Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 2: International Comparisons (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

PDF

Residential and Business Broadband Prices Part 1: An Empirical Analysis of Metering and Other Price Determinants (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)

For this project, we assemble a new dataset consisting of more than 25,000 residential and...

 

PDF

Residential and Business Broadband Prices: Data Appendix (with James Riso), Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2010)
 

PDF

Understanding International Comparisons: 2009 Update, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2009)
 

Link

Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? Empirical evidence from Latin America (with George RG Clarke and Katrina Kosec), Journal of International Development (2009)

Introducing private sector participation (PSP) into the water and sewerage sectors is difficult and controversial....

 

PDF

Net Neutrality, Unbundling, and their Effects on International Investment in Next-Generation Networks (with Stephanie Hausladen), Review of Network Economics (2009)

This paper examines the net neutrality debate in countries outside the U.S., particularly in the...

 

PDF

Understanding International Broadband Comparisons, Technology Policy Institute Working Paper (2008)
 

PDF

Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience, Federal Communications Law Journal (2008)

The United States now spends around $7 billion on universal service programs—subsidies intended to ensure...

 

PDF

Broadband and Unbundling Regulations in OECD Countries, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper (2006)

Broadband penetration and available speeds vary widely across OECD countries. Policymakers around the world, and...

 

PDF

The Economic Cost of the Iraq War, The Economists' Voice (2006)

Scott Wallsten of the American Enterprise Institute estimates that the true economic costs of the...

 

PDF

Universal Telecommunications Service in India (with Roger G. Noll), India Policy Forum (2006)
 

PDF

The Economic Costs of the War in Iraq (with Katrina Kosec) (2005)
 

Link

Regulation and Internet Use in Developing Countries, Economic Development and Cultural Change (2005)
 

PDF

New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database (with George Clarke, Luke Haggarty, Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, Mary Shirley, and Lixin Colin Xu), Review of Network Economics (2004)

We construct comprehensive and consistent datasets on telecommunications and electricity regulations in developing countries through...

 

Link

Privatizing Monopolies in Developing Countries: The Real Effects of Exclusivity Periods in Telecommunications, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2004)

Many developing countries have given newly privatized incumbent network utilities, especially telecommunications, exclusive rights to...

 

Link

How Globalization Stabilizes Poor Countries, Project Syndicate (2003)
 

Link

Investment Climate in China: A Tale of Five Cities (with David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anqing Shi, Shuilin Wang, and Lixin Colin Xu), Transition (2003)
 

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Of Carts and Horses: Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms, Journal of Policy Reform (2003)

In the early 1990s, many advocated quick privatization of state‐owned monopolies in developing countries, assuming...

 

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Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers (with George RG Clarke), Infrastructure for Poor People: Public Policy for Private Provision (2003)

Until recently, utility services (telecommunications, power, water, and gas) throughout the world were provided by...

 

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An econometric analysis of telecom competition, privatization, and regulation in Africa and Latin America, Journal of Industrial Economics (2001)

This paper explores the effects of privatization, competition, and regulation on telecommunications performance in 30...

 

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Telecommunications investment and traffic in developing countries: The effects of international settlement rate reforms, Journal of Regulatory Economics (2001)

In 1997 the FCC ordered sharp decreases in international settlement rates (bilaterally negotiated telecommunication rates)...

 

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Bring the President's Nerds Back in From the Cold (with Robert Hahn), Financial Times (2003)