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Save the Date!

Regulating Communications: Stories from the First Hundred Years

GLEN ROBINSON
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission, 1974-76
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Virginia School of Law

Thursday, February 18, 2010, 4 p.m.
Room 120, George Mason University School of Law, 3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Va.

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Professor Robinson, drawing on his distinguished career as a scholar and policy maker, will present three stories to illustrate salient features of FCC regulation: (1) a story about the construction of regulatory paradigms, specifically the natural monopoly model, (2) a story of regulatory parthenogenesis, or the FCC’s self-defining qualities, and (3) a story about the symbols that drive or distort regulation, particularly in spectrum allocation policy. pdf Flyer: Glen Robinson's Feb. 18 Lecture

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Recent Research

Thomas Hazlett, Dennis L. Weisman, Market Power in U.S. Broadband Services (Nov. 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, David Porter, Vernon Smith, Radio Spectrum and the Disruptive Clarity of Ronald Coase (Coase Conference, Dec. 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, Tragedy T.V.: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem (Gridlock Conference, Oct. 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony? (MSFT/GMU Conference on Innovation, May 2009)

Joshua Wright, Why the Supreme Court Was Correct to Deny Cert in FTC v. Rambus (Mar. 2009)

Joshua Wright & Bruce Kobayashi, Federalism and Patent Holdup (2009)

Thomas Hazlett & Anil Caliskan, Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Reg. (Dec. 2008)

Babette Boliek, Net Neutrality in Mobile Telecom (Oct. 2008)

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Articles Published from IEP Conferences

Unleashing Unlicensed Conference Articles Published in info: the j. of pol'y, reg., & strategy (Aug. 2009)

Merger Analysis Conference Articles Published in J. Comp. L. & Econ. (Sept. 2008)

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Crisis in Public Safety Conference Articles Published in Fed. Comm. L. J. (Mar. 2007)

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Articles Published from IEP Lectures

William Webb, An Optimal Way To License the Radio Spectrum, Telecom. Pol'y, Vol. 33 (Apr.-May 2009)

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Martin Cooper, Personal Communications and Spectrum Policy For the 21st Century, Telecom. Pol'y, Vol. 31 (Nov. - Dec. 2007)

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David Porter & Vernon Smith, FCC License Experiment Design: A 12-Year Experiment, J. of L., Econ. & Pol'y, Vol. 3:1 (2006)

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IEP Conferences

Markets, Firms and Property Rights: A Celebration of the Research of Ronald Coase

Friday and Saturday, December 4-5, 2009, University of Chicago Law School

Video Address by Ronald Coase:

This Conference brought together a group of scholars to honor the life and research of Ronald Coase. 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Coase’s seminal paper on the Federal Communications Commission. 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his paper on “The Problem of Social Cost,” and his 100th birthday.

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Tragedies of the Gridlock Economy: How Mis-Configuring Property Rights Stymies Social Efficiency

Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 with Video from the Morning Session: The Debate Over the "Gridlock Economy"

Michael Heller

Richard Epstein

Abstracts & Articles Presented at the IEP Conference on the Gridlock Economy (Oct. 2, 2009)

Gridlock Economy:

Richard Epstein, Heller's Gridlock Economy In Perspective

Spectrum Policy:

Thomas Hazlett, Tragedy T.V.: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem

Kevin Werbach, The Wasteland: Anticommons, White Spaces, and the Fallacy of Spectrum

Google Book Search:

Doug Lichtman, Google Book Search in the Gridlock Economy

Robert Merges, Autonomy and Independence: The Normative Face of Transaction Costs

Luncheon Keynote:

Harold Demsetz, Externalities, Commons, and Gridlocks

Conference Handouts:

pdf Conference Agenda

pdf Speaker Biographies

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Past IEP Conferences

The Genesis of Unlicensed Wireless Policy: How Spread Spectrum Devices Won Access to License-Exempt Bandwidth (Friday, Apr. 4, 2008)

Merger Analysis in High-Technology Markets: Evaluating Antitrust Issues in Dynamic Markets (Friday, Feb. 1, 2008)

Smart Radio: Smart Markets and Policies, along with the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (Friday, Apr. 6, 2007)

The Crisis in Public Safety Communications: Perspectives from the Academic, Business, and Policymaking Communities (Friday, Dec. 8, 2006)

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IEP Mini-Conferences

The Gore Commission, Ten Years Later: The Public Interest Obligations of Digital Broadcasters in Perfect Hindsight (Friday, Oct. 3, 2008)

Consensus FCC Reforms and the Communications Agenda for the Next Administration (Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008)

Innovation, Technology, and Spectrum Policy: Municipal WiFi, Two Views on the White Spaces, and a Special Keynote by Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs (Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006)

Lessons from the Telecom Wars: Crafting Network Sharing Mandates, Unbundling Rules, and Broadband Deregulation and Net Neutrality (Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006)

 

 

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Big Ideas About Information

Glen Robinson

Regulating Communications: Stories from the First Hundred Years


David Clark

Social Implications of Tomorrow's Internet

 

William Webb

U.K. Spectrum Reform

 

Andrew Odlyzko

Technology Manias

 

Dennis Patrick

The Fairness Doctrine

 

Martin Cooper

"Father of the Cellphone"

 

Brian Lamb

C-SPAN: Present at the Revolution

 

Vernon Smith & David Porter

Lessons from Twelve Years of FCC Auctions

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Presentations, Testimony & Interviews

Unleashing the DTV Band, A Proposal for an Overlay Auction (Dec. 18, 2009), Thomas W. Hazlett, Comment - NBP Public Notice #26

FCC Workshop on National Broadband Plan: Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research (Dec. 2009), Thomas W. Hazlett, Testimony - NBP Public Notice #16

Can Wireless Infrastructure Keep Up In Ultra Broadband? 25th International Summit on Media & Communication (Oct. 2008)

Optimal Spectrum Allocation, Presentation at CIDE, Mexico City (Oct. 2008)

Public Hearing on Early Termination Fees, Written Testimony (June 2008)

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Participating Events by IEP Scholars

Upcoming Events:

Big Ideas About Information Lecture by Former FCC Commissioner Glen Robinson (Feb. 18, 2010)

 

FCC Workshop on National Broadband Plan: Review and Discussion of Broadband Deployment Research (Dec. 2009)

 

TOTM Blog Symposium on Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets (Dec. 8-9, 2009)

Coase's FCC at 50, Mercatus Center (Oct. 29, 2009, 9 am to 12 pm) (McDowell, Hazlett, Kwerel, Williams, Eisenach)

TOTM Merger Guidelines Blog Symposium (Oct. 26-27, 2009)

2nd Annual Searle Center Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy Conference at Northwestern University School of Law (Sept. 25-26, 2009)

Economic Science Institute Lecture, Chapman University (Sept. 18, 2009)

Online Markets vs. Traditional Markets, 3rd Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation (May 7, 2009)

Wireless Technologies, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (Apr. 17, 2009)

 

Debate on Spectrum Allocation, Catholic University CommLaw Conspectus Symposium (Feb. 26, 2009)


IEP TechLab

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In the News

Thomas Hazlett, Google's China Syndrome, Financial Times (Feb. 2, 2010)

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Thomas Hazlett, Ronald Coase and the Radio Spectrum, Financial Times (Dec. 16, 2009)

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Thomas Hazlett, We're Number Two?, Commentary (Dec. 2009)

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Thomas Hazlett, Putting A Price Tag On TV Spectrum, TVNewsCheck (Nov. 25, 2009)

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Thomas Hazlett, The Broadband Numbers Racket, Financial Times (Sept. 17, 2009)

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Thomas Hazlett, The Misguided Urge to Regulate Wireless, Business Week (July 27, 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, Analog Television Dies With a Whimper, Real Clear Markets.com (June 30, 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, A Letter to the New FCC Chair, Mr. Julius Genachowski, Financial Times (June 27, 2009)

FCC Nominee: Broadband Deployment a Major Priority, The Industry Standard (June 16, 2009)

American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say, BroadbandCensus (June 15, 2009)

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Broadcast Television's Switch to Digital is Finally Here, Miami Herald (June 11, 2009)

Joshua Wright, U.S. Antitrust Becomes More European, Forbes Magazine (May 18, 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, Shovel-Ready Broadband Stimulus, Financial Times (May 1, 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, Analog Switchoff Goes Unnoticed, Financial Times (Feb. 28, 2009)

Thomas Hazlett, Muni WiFi Flop, Ars Technica (Dec. 22, 2008)

Thomas Hazlett, The Anti-Technology Bailout, Financial Times (Dec. 1, 2008)

Thomas Hazlett, Economies of Scale: The "Don't Be Evil" Principle Permits Profits, Barron's (Nov. 17, 2008)

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Thomas W. Hazlett and Vernon L. Smith, Don't Let Google Freeze the Airwaves, Wall St. J., A29 (Oct. 3, 2008)

Thomas Hazlett, It's the Spectrum, Stupid, Financial Times (Apr. 7, 2008)

Dennis Patrick and Thomas W. Hazlett, The Return of the Speech Police, Wall St. J., A13 (July 30, 2007)

Jerry Brito, Failure to Communicate, Wall St. J. (Mar. 13, 2007)

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