This paper summarizes the results and methodology of a 5G essentiality survey that estimates the total number of patent families (excluding Ericsson, which funded this study) that have a patent with at least one claim that is essential to the 5G consumer mobile smartphone as of January 2020. In...

Die Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) veröffentlichte am 21. Juni 2021 ein Szenarienpapier, das sich mit Grundsätzen der zukünftigen Bereitstellung von Mobilfunkfrequenzen mit einem besonderen Fokus auf die Verbesserung der Breitbandversorgung befasst. Das ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische...

With the explosive growth of mobile applications and extensive praxis of cloud computing, mobile cloud computing has been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services. But privacy is the main concern for a mobile user in the modern era. In the current study, we address the privacy...

Product bundling may benefit or harm consumers depending on the correlation between consumer willingness to pay for the bundled goods and the levels of market dominance of firms. We develop a structural demand model that allows for correlated consumer's willingness to pay and flexible...

This paper summarizes the results and methodology of a 5G essentiality survey that estimates the total number of patent families (excluding Ericsson, which funded this study) that have a patent with at least one claim which is essential to the 5G consumer mobile smartphone as of January 2020. In...

One key aspect of the debate over network neutrality has been whether and how network neutrality should apply to wireless networks. The existing commentary has focused on the economics of wireless network neutrality, but to date a detailed analysis of how the technical aspects of wireless...

Cellular telephone is an example of a new product that has significantly affected how Americans live. Since their introduction in 1983, cellular telephone adoption has grown at 25-35% per year such that at year end 1996 about 42 million cellular telephones are in use in the U.S. However,...

Americans have long believed in upward mobility and the narrative of the American Dream. Even in the face of rising income inequality and substantial empirical evidence that economic mobility has declined in recent decades, many Americans remain convinced of the prospects for upward mobility....