Over the past twenty years we have seen the emergence of an important phenomenon in the practice of modern regulation — cooperative bargaining between the regulator and the regulated over a “bundle” of seemingly unrelated issues. Because of the multiplicity of issues being adjudicated...

Free Press's report “It's Working: How the Internet Access and Online Video Markets are Thriving in the Title II Era” claims that capital spending by Broadband Service Providers (“BSPs”) “accelerated” following the Federal Communications Commission's (“FCC”) reclassification of...

Perhaps the most frequently cited goal of telecommunications policy is the promotion of infrastructure investment, an outcome of some statutory importance. Investment in telecoms infrastructure, in turn, stimulates jobs, which is another key target of public policy. Naturally, in the heated...

A difference-in-differences estimator is used to quantify the investment effects of the Federal Communications Commission's reclassification of broadband Internet service as a Title II telecommunications service. Data analyzed is the Bureau of Economic Analysis' investments in property and...

We attempt to shed some light on the optimal design of Commission rules and practices for addressing interference disputes. Since spectrum licenses produce no benefits without large and mostly sunk investments in communications networks, our focus is on investment incentives. We argue that the...

Each $1 million change in the regulatory budget is associated with a change of about four regulator jobs. With our new update, we now find that a 10% cut in the regulatory budget results in a loss of 21,756 regulatory jobs. Given the average jobs impact of 3 million jobs over the five-year...

In the heated debate over Net Neutrality, the effects of regulation on investment are a central concern, with special attention given to the presence or absence of investment effects from the FCC's 2010 proposal and subsequent controversial 2015 decision to reclassify broadband Internet access...

According to the music recording industry, YouTube, one of the largest purveyors of on-demand digital music, evades paying market rates for the use of copyrighted content by exploiting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's “safe harbor” provisions. The source of the distortion in licensing...

In this perspective, I provide a detailed review of the Consumer Federation of America's attempt to calculate a “big number” in the context of the FCC's development of a new regulatory scheme for special access services. As shown here, CFA's claim is based on a method that is internally...