The purpose of patent policy is to balance the incentive to invent against the ability of the economy to utilize and incorporate new inventions and innovations. Substandard patents that upset this balance impose deadweight losses and other costs on the economy. In this paper, we examine some of...

In 2018, we introduced the TPRC community to USAID’s WomenConnect Challenge, a project designed to identify effective solutions to the gender digital divide in developing countries. Now, in 2020, the original set of WomenConnect projects we introduced have completed and yielded a range of...

We assess the performance and efficiency of OECD countries with respect to broadband Internet subscription. Using the econometric techniques of Least Squares and Stochastic Frontier Analysis, we estimate scores indicating the efficiency with which a country converts its economic and demographic...

This Bulletin presents a brief primer of the FCC's merger review authority under the Communications Act. As outlined herein, precedent dictates that the FCC has independent (and indeed broader) authority to review communications industry mergers separate from the authority bestowed upon the...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 contains provisions that allow increasing levels of concentration in local radio markets. Debate has focused on whether allowing greater concentration of broadcast media resources into fewer hands is a sound public policy. One fear of regulators is the effect...