Papers and Published Articles from Information Economy Project Programs
The Genesis of Unlicensed Wireless (April 4, 2008)
"Wi-Fi and Bluetooth - The Path from Carter and Reagan-era Faith in Deregulation to Widespread Products Impacting Our World"
MICHAEL MARCUS, former FCC Engineer and Policy-Maker (Bio) Paper (PDF) Presentation (PPT) Digital Recording (MP3)
Introduction by MARK FOWLER , Federal Communications Commission Chairman, May 1981 - April 1987 Comments, Read by Chuck Jackson (PDF)-
Panel 1: Policy Development Digital Recording (MP3)
"Unlicensed to Kill: a Brief History of the FCC Part 15 Rules"
KENNETH R. CARTER, Senior Consultant at wik-Consult GmbH (Bio) Paper (Word) Presentation (PPT)
"Unleashing Innovation: Making the FCC User-Friendly"
STEPHEN J. LUKASIK, first Chief Scientist, FCC (Bio) Presentation (PPT)"Grazing on the Commons: The Emergence of Part 15,"
HENRY GOLDBERG, founding partner, Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright (Bio) Paper (PDF) -
Panel 2: Market Development Digital Recording (MP3)
Moderated by ANTHONY TOWNSEND, Institute for the Future (Bio)"History of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) in the Unlicensed Bands"
KEVIN NEGUS, engineer and venture capital partner (Bio), and AL PETRICK, wireless consultant (Bio) Paper (PDF) Presentation (PPT) by Dr. Negus"Unlicensed: The case of Wi-Fi"
ING VICTOR HAYES, Senior Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology, (Bio), and DR. IR. WOLTER LEMSTRA, Senior Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology (Bio) Paper (PDF) Presentation (PDF) by Ing. Hayes"Broadband Access in Unlicensed Bands for Fun & Profit"
TIM POZAR, telecommunications consultant, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group (Bio) Presentation (PDF) - "What Went Wrong with U-PCS" Digital Recording (MP3)
DEWAYNE HENDRICKS, (Bio) Presentation (PPT)
Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets (February 1, 2008)
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Panel 1: Recording of Morning Keynote and Panel 1 [1:39:38]
"Technological Innovation and Merger Policy's Third Era"
HOWARD SHELANSKI (U. C. Berkeley) [PDF]
"Market Definition in Online Markets,"
MICHAEL BAYE (Federal Trade Commission) [PDF]
"Sky Wars: The Attempted Merger of Dish/DirecTV,"
RICHARD GILBERT (U.C. Berkeley) [PDF] - Panel 2:
Recording of Panel 2 [1:11:23]
"An Antitrust Analysis of Google's Proposed Acquisition of Doubleclick,"
HAL SINGER (Criterion) & ROBERT HAHN (American Enterprise Institution) [PDF]"Nice Theory, But Where's the Evidence?: The Use of Economic Evidence to Evaluate Vertical and Conglomerate Mergers in the U.S. and E.U.,"
MARY COLEMAN (LECG) [PDF]"Mergers Among Firms that License Common Intellectual Property,"
LUKE FROEB (Vanderbilt) [PDF] - Panel 3:
Recording of Panel 3 [1:13:56]
"Are 'Online Markets' Real and Relevant?",
BRUCE ABRAMSON (CRAI) [PDF]"Antitrust in Orbit: Some Dynamics of Horizontal Merger Analysis in the Case of XM-Sirius," THOMAS HAZLETT (George Mason University) [PDF]
"Evaluating Market Power with Two-Sided Demand and Preemptive Offers to Dissipate Monopoly Rent: Lessons for High-Technology Industries from the Proposed Merger of XM and Sirius Satellite Radio,"
J. GREG SIDAK (Georgetown)
The Crisis in Public Safety Communications (December 6, 2006)
Sponsored jointly between the Information Economy Project, and the Mercatus Center, at George Mason University.
- Articles Published in the Federal Communications Law Journal, March 2007:
Sending Out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem [PDF] by Jerry BritoSolving the Interoperability Problem: Are We On the Same Channel? An Essay on the Problems and Prospects for Public Safety Radio [PDF] by Gerald R. Faulhaber
Fundamental Reform in Public Safety Communications Policy [PDF] Jon M. Peha
Communicating During Emergencies: Toward Interoperability and Effective Information Management [PDF] By Philip J. Weiser
Papers Produced from 'Big Ideas' About Information Lectures:
- "Personal Communications and Spectrum Policy For the 21st Century,"
Martin Cooper
Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 31, Issues 10-11 (Nov.-Dec. 2007)
- "FCC License Experiment Design: A 12-Year Experiment,"
David Porter & Vernon Smith
Journal of Law, Economics and Policy (Vol. 3:1, 2006)