We evaluate the stability of coefficient and willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for recreation services over two time periods. To address this question, we estimate a Random Utility Maximization (RUM) model of recreation demand, using two datasets from different time periods, but concerning the...

In this study we estimated the price elasticities among meats, vegetables, grains, and potatoes and the impact that different levels of income have on the demand for these commodities. The 2005 Nielsen retail home scan data were used to construct a censored demand system of 14 equations. Results...

This article describes the path leading to the FCC's decision to regulate the Internet, the legal battle that has ensued, the positions of interested parties, the stakes from their perspectives, the rules themselves, and the likely effects of those rules on network providers and application...

Business Data Services (BDS), formerly called special access services, are dedicated broadband lines offered by network providers to business customers and network providers. In a packet-based broadband network, the distinction between customer and competitor is being blurred, and with it the...

The recent Camp Fire in California demonstrates that aside from being energy inefficient, homes in the United States are particularly vulnerable to wildfires. While energy efficiency may slow the increase in destructive fires, it's clear we must improve wildfire building survivability. Few...

The Federal Communications Commission issued a Privacy Order restricting the use of personal data by Internet Service Providers. Many consumer advocates hailed it as a bold step to protect personal privacy. Many Internet-based companies strongly disagreed. Shortly after the Trump Administration...

This article describes recent regulatory developments for business data services. This is a huge market estimated to be between $45- and $75 billion, dominated by a few thousand sophisticated customers that purchase very reliable private communication networks. Business data customers, for...

This paper uses the failed AT&T/Time Warner merger as a case study to show that mergers between companies with markedly different cultures are likely to fail. Besides documenting the merged company’s worsening financial condition, the paper contrasts AT&T’s performance after the merger with...

Securing critical infrastructure from sophisticated cyber and physical attacks is a top national priority. As recent attacks on the Ukraine electric grid and Metcalf substation have demonstrated, coordinated and sophisticated attacks are a real threat to the nation’s electric grid. A...

Digital Mosaic Pollution (DMP) arises when bits of information originally gathered for other purposes escape their original boundaries. The metaphor of a mosaic implies that bits of information, each not valuable by itself, when pieced together can create a clear, or distorted, picture of a...