The growth of wireless broadband is a bright spot in the U.S. economy, but a shortage of flexibly licensed spectrum rights could put a crimp on this expansion. Freeing up spectrum from other uses would allow greater expansion of wireless broadband and would bring substantial gains - likely in...

This filing, from the Tunney Act proceeding in the Microsoft antitrust case, assesses the legal, policy and economic implications of the DOJ-Microsoft consent decreed - the Proposed Final Judgment . We find that (a) the PFJ fails to address meaningfully the violations of law found by the U.S....

Numerous studies have demonstrated that investment in telecommunications infrastructure and other forms of information technology is the primary cause of the acceleration in productivity growth, which began in the late 1990s and has continued, unabated, to the present. Economists also recognize...

Über alternative Annäherungen zum dynamischen Phänomen der Beschäftigung Der Aufsatz vergleicht die Wirkungen von unvollständigen Informationen über Preise und Nominallöhne in einem aggregierten Drei-Güter-Modell. Wenn die Information über Preise unvollständig ist, dann wird die...

The plan announced last week in Philadelphia to create a government-owned wireless broadband network isn't needed, is economically and technologically unsound and will put the city's taxpayers at great financial risk. The Wireless Philadelphia Business Plan promises (1) ubiquitous broadband...

There is general agreement that cost-effective environmental regulation uses market mechanisms, such as a tax or a cap-and-trade program, in order to leave choices about the least-cost ways of achieving policy goals to individual producers and consumers. A renewable electricity standard (RES) is...