By serving as a key revenue source for online content providers, online advertising has been instrumental in the development of innovative websites. Continued innovation among content providers, however, depends critically on the competitive provision of online advertising. Suppliers of online...

Net neutrality represents the prohibition of any contracting for enhanced service or guaranteed quality of service (QoS) between a broadband service provider and an Internet content provider. Such a prohibition would unwind existing contracts for QoS between broadband service providers and...

Professor Susan Crawford has just published an exciting new book on the future of high-speed Internet access in America. To hear Crawford tell it in 270 pages (excluding the copious footnotes), Americans should be worried because most of them will not have access to the fastest lane on the...

Specific sectors of the U.S. economy, such as electricity, rental, and food, substantially contribute to overall inflation, and each of these sectors has experienced increasing concentration, which may exacerbate inflation, by, inter alia, facilitating price coordination. To investigate this...

Using international data on porting, churn, and mobile prices, this paper seeks to estimate the impact of a change in the efficiency of a mobile-number-portability (MNP) regime. It offers new empirical evidence, consistent with prior findings in the literature, that the average time it takes to...

U.S. policymakers are in the midst of an active debate over how best to accelerate the build-out of next-generation broadband networks. The U.S. economy has a significant economic stake in the outcome. It is increasingly apparent in the global economy linked together by the Internet that the...

In the last several years, narrowband "dial-up" Internet Service Providers have been decimated by consumer migration to higher-speed broadband services. Narrowband ISPs are now pressuring the Federal Communications Commission and other telecommunications regulators to implement policies that...

Tax increment financing (TIF) is an increasingly common form of economic development incentive used by local governments to encourage private sector investment. In this study, we focus attention on a specific TIF proposal in the City of Dallas. In the empirical section, we present a regression...

In December 2003, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that sought comments on suggested changes to the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) program. Among other regulatory concepts, NHTSA suggested that future CAFE...

As economists with significant experience in competition, telecommunications, and regulatory matters, we have filed the attached brief in the case of State of New York v. Deutsche Telecom supporting the plaintiffs, who have sued to prevent the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. We explain why the...