Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...

This contribution highlights some of the conclusions made by Ecorys in two studies that were commissioned by the European Commission: Truly Internal Market for e-communications (2012) and Future electronic communications markets subject to ex-ante regulation (2013). This contribution translates...

Using data on the prices paid by multichannel video programing distributors (“MVPDs”) for basic cable networks, I conduct a retrospective analysis of the price effects of the Comcast-NBCU merger. Estimates from both the difference-in-differences and lagged-dependent variable models indicate...

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spans 3550-3700 MHz. It represents approximately a 16% expansion of licensed spectrum below 4 Ghz. Wireless services based on available wireless spectrum have been a substantial source of technological innovation and economic growth over the past few...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) pledged at its recent Mexico City meeting to establish an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT). This team of 24 experts is responsible for developing and proposing protections for trademark holders. Such protections are needed...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) should institute a variety of changes to its soon-to-be-issued Draft Applicant Guidebook for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), which has sparked fierce and almost universal opposition from the global business community in its...

This document is the introductory chapter to my privacy book published by Thomson-West. It offers a conceptual overview of issues and principles that have been adopted by the United States, as well as foreign countries

Open source and proprietary software firms are no longer polar opposites on the business landscape. In the decade in which open source software has become a practical alternative to proprietary products, there has been a so-called move to the middle. Proprietary firms have begun to embrace open...