Created in 2005 with support from GMU School of Law and the George Mason University Foundation, the Information Economy Project is growing rapidly. It looks forward to expanding its research programs to tackle and ever-wider array of public policy issues.
The work of the Information Economy Project sits at the intersection of academic research and public policy. Unlike many think tanks or policy groups, the scholarly research of the Information Economy Project is peer-reviewed and academically based. Published research already spans broadband regulation, spectrum allocation, high-tech merger policy, and more.
Research Generated By IEP Scholars and IEP Conferences
2009
"Tragedy T.V.: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem" by Thomas Hazlett, October 2, 2009 (forthcoming publication Spring 2010), Quick Links: Gridlock Economy Conference
"Heller's Gridlock Economy In Perspective" by Richard Epstein, October 2, 2009 (forthcoming publication Spring 2010), Quick Links: Gridlock Economy Conference
"The Wasteland: Anticommons, White Spaces, and the Fallacy of Spectrum" by Kevin Werbach, October 2, 2009 (forthcoming publication Spring 2010), Quick Links: Gridlock Economy Conference
"Google Book Search in the Gridlock Economy" by Doug Lichtman, October 2, 2009 (forthcoming publication Spring 2010), Quick Links: Gridlock Economy Conference
"Autonomy and Independence: The Normative Face of Transaction Costs" by Robert Merges, October 2, 2009 (forthcoming publication Spring 2010), Quick Links: Gridlock Economy Conference
"On Being Misled by Transaction Cost Economics: Externalities, Commons, and Gridlocks" by Harold Demsetz, October 2, 2009 (forthcoming publication Spring 2010), Quick Links: Gridlock Economy Conference
"Patent Holdup, Antitrust and Innovation: Harness or Noose" by Joshua Wright & Audrey Stuempfle, Alabama Law Review (forthcoming, 2009), Quick Links: Joshua Wright, Truth on the Market Blog
"A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies” by Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz, 40 RAND Journal of Economics 424 - 454 (2009), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, Roberto E. Muñoz
"U.S. Wireless License Auctions: 1994-2009" by Thomas Hazlett, ACCC Conference in Brisbane, Australia, July 14, 2009, Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony?" by Thomas Hazlett, GMU/Microsoft Conference, May 7, 2009, Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, GMU/Microsoft Conference
"Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference: Guest Editorial" by Charles L. Jackson, 5 INFO (August 2009), Quick Links: Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference
"Unlicensed to Kill: A Brief History of the FCC Part 15 Rules" by Kenneth R. Carter, 5 INFO 8-18 (August 2009), Quick Links: Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference
"Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: The Path from Carter and Reagan-era Faith
in Deregulation to Widespread Products Impacting Our World" by Michael J. Marcus, 5 INFO 19-35 (August 2009), Quick Links: Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference
"Unlicensed: The Case of Wi-Fi" by Ing Victor Hayes & Ir. Wolter Lemstra, 5 INFO 57-71 (August 2009), Quick Links: Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference
"Grazing on the Commons: The Emergence of Part 15" by Henry Goldberg, 5 INFO 72-75 (August 2009), Quick Links: Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference
"Has "Unlicensed" in Part 15 Worked? A Case Study" by Tim Pozar, 5 INFO 86-91 (August 2009), Quick Links: Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference
"An Optimal Way To License the Radio Spectrum" by William Webb, Telecom. Pol'y, Vol. 33 (Apr.-May 2009), Quick Links: Big Ideas About Information, William Webb
"Why the Supreme Court was Correct to Deny Certiorari in FTC v. Rambus" by Joshua D. Wright, Global Competition Policy (March 2009), Quick Links: Joshua Wright, Truth on the Market Blog
"Federalism, Substantive Preemption, and Limits on Antitrust: An Application to Patent Holdup" by Joshua D. Wright & Bruce H. Kobayashi, Journal of Competition Law and Economics (forthcoming 2009), Quick Links: Joshua Wright, Truth on the Market Blog, Bruce Kobayashi
2008
"Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation" by Thomas W. Hazlett & Anil Caliskan, Review of Network Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 4 (December 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, Anil Caliskan
"Net Neutrality Regulation in the Mobile Telecommunications Market: A Cautionary Tale from the Era of Price Regulation" by Babette Boliek, Social Science Research Network, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers (October 2008), Quick Links: Babette Boliek
"Some Dynamics of High-Tech Merger Analysis in General and With Respect to XM-Sirius" by Thomas W. Hazlett, 4 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 753-73 (September 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Property Rights and Wireless License Values" by Thomas W. Hazlett, 51 Journal of Law and Economics 563-98 (August 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"A Law & Economics Approach to Spectrum Property Rights: A Response to Professors Weiser & Hatfield" by Thomas W. Hazlett, 15 George Mason Law Review 975-1023 (Summer 2008), a response to "Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights" by Philip J. Weiser & Dale Hatfield, 15 George Mason Law Review 549-609 (Spring 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"A Rejoinder to Weiser and Hatfield on Spectrum Rights" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, 15 George Mason Law Review 1031-39 (Summer 2008), a rejoinder to: "Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights" by Philip J. Weiser & Dale Hatfield, 15 George Mason Law Review 1025 (Summer 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Liberal Rules for a 21st Century World: The U.S. Experience with Convergence" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, Paper Presented to Keidanren
(Tokyo, Japan; Feb. 26, 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Technological Innovation and Merger Policy's Third Era" by Howard Shelanski (Presentation Feb. 1 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"Market Definition in Online Markets" by Michael Baye, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 4(3), 639–653 (Sept. 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"Sky Wars: The Attempted Merger of Dish/DirecTV" by Richard Gilbert (Presentation Feb. 1 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"Defining the Relevant
Product Market for Google Google-
DoubleClick Merger" by Hal Singer & Robert W. Hahn (Presentation Feb. 1 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"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." by Mary T. Coleman (Presentation Feb. 1 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"Horizontal Mergers Among IP Licensors and IP Licensees" by Luke Froeb (Presentation Feb. 1 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"Are 'Online Markets' Real and Relevant? From Monster/Hotjobs to Google/DoubleClick" by Bruce Abramson, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 4(3), 655–662 (Sept. 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"Antitrust in Orbit: Some Dynamics of Horizontal Merger Analysis in General and with Respect to XM-Sirius" by Thomas W. Hazlett, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 4(3), 753–773 (Sept. 2008) , Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"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" by J. Greg Sidak and Hal J. Singer, Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 4(3), 697–751 (Sept. 2008), Quick Links: Merger Analysis in High Tech Markets Conference
"A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies" by
Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Munoz, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-28 (Jan. 19, 2008), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, Roberto E. Muñoz
"Deploying Cognitive Radio: Economic, Legal and Policy Issues" by
Gerald R. Faulhaber, 2 International Journal of Communications 1114-24 (2008), Quick Links: Gerald Faulhaber
2007
"Personal Communications and Spectrum Policy For the 21st Century" by Martin Cooper, Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 31, Issues 10-11 (Nov.-Dec. 2007), Quick Links: Big Ideas About Information, Martin Cooper
"Property Rights to Radio Spectrum in Guatemala and El Salvador: An Experiment in Liberalization" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, Giancarlo Ibarguen, Wayne Leighton, 3 Review of Law & Economics 2 (2007), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Cable TV Franchises as Barriers to Video Competition" by Thomas W. Hazlett, 12 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology 2 (Winter 2007), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
“The Return of the Speech Police” by Dennis Patrick and Thomas Hazlett, appeared in The Wall Street Journal on July 30, 2007, page A13, Quick Links: Big Ideas About Information, Dennis Patrick
"Sending Out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem" by Jerry Brito, Federal Communications Law Journal (March 2007), Quick Links: Crisis in Public Safety Communications Conference
"Solving the Interoperability Problem: Are We On the Same Channel? An Essay on the Problems and Prospects for Public Safety Radio" by Gerald R. Faulhaber, Federal Communications Law Journal (March 2007), Quick Links: Crisis in Public Safety Communications Conference, Gerald Faulhaber
"Fundamental Reform in Public Safety Communications Policy" by Jon M. Peha, Federal Communications Law Journal (March 2007), Quick Links: Crisis in Public Safety Communications Conference
"Communicating During Emergencies: Toward Interoperability and Effective Information Management" by Philip J. Weiser, Federal Communications Law Journal (March 2007), Quick Links: Crisis in Public Safety Communications Conference
2006
"Missed Opportunities in Independent Ink" by
Joshua D. Wright, Cato Supreme Court Review (August 2006), Quick Links: Joshua Wright, Truth on the Market Blog
"FCC License Experiment Design: A 12-Year Experiment" by
David Porter & Vernon Smith, 3 Journal of Law, Economics and Policy 63 (2006), Quick Links: Big Ideas About Information, David Porter, Vernon Smith
"Shedding Tiers for a la Carte? An Economic Analysis of Cable TV Pricing" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, 5 Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law 1 (2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"The Spectrum-Allocation Debate: An Analysis" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, 10 IEEE Internet Computing 5, pp. 68-74. (Sept.-Oct. 2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"Spectrum Allocation in Latin America: An Economic Analysis" by
Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-44 (Sept. 2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, Roberto E. Muñoz
"Rivalrous Telecommunications Networks With and Without Mandatory Sharing" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, 58 Federal Communications Law Journal 3 (2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
"A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies" by
Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz,
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-28 (April 7, 2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, Roberto E. Muñoz
"The Social Value of TV Band Spectrum in European Countries" by
Thomas W. Hazlett, Jüergen Müller and Roberto Muñoz,
8 INFO 62-73 (2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett, Roberto E. Muñoz
"Advanced Wireless Technologies and Public Policy" by Thomas W. Hazlett and Matthew L. Spitzer, 79 Southern California Law Review 595-665 (March 2006), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett
2005
"Regulated Unbundling of Telecommunications Networks: A Stepping Stone to Facilities-Based Competition?" by Thomas W. Hazlett and Coleman Bazelon,
Paper presentation at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (Sept. 21-23, 2005),
Working Paper (October 2005), Quick Links: Thomas Hazlett |
