Almost every product sold today must conform to standards, whether relating to its design, manufacture, operation, testing, safety, sale or disposal, and sometimes to many of these at once. At their root, standards are no more than written requirements or design features of a product, service or...

We examine the extent to which the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 Open Internet Order prevents anti-competitive and discriminatory pricing. We show that by refraining from regulating interconnection agreements and by allowing Internet service providers to engage in "zero rating," the...

The global financial crisis has provided clear evidence that the global financial system, including that of Australia, is founded on flawed economic theories. There is no scientific justification for sophisticated risk management, complex institutional structures or intrusive regulation....

Digital technologies are being adopted at a faster pace than previous waves of innovation, and their use is re-shaping administration and business, consumer behaviour and social interactions. They are subject to widely varying regimes, from lightly regulated but heavily standardised global...

Simpler to me would be a lunar colony with a mini nuclear power plant. The materials for the panels would in both cases be found on the moon. Launching of the panels would benefit from the low gravity on the moon (1/6 of earth gravity) and the earth would still be saved from the environmental...

Large platform companies increasingly integrate vertically by building Internet infrastructure. These proprietary infrastructures confer cost and quality advantages in digital platform markets. I model competing investment incentives for an upstream player and a vertically integrated platform...

The public policy approach to the Internet has become more and more complex as several markets – including fixed and mobile communications, media and content, IT – converge into one single Internet ecosystem. As in all ecosystems, zones and domains depend on each other, and there is no...

Interconnection rates are a key variable in telecommunications markets. Every call that is placed must be terminated by the network of the receiving party, thus the termination end has the characteristic of an economic bottleneck and is subject to regulation in many countries. This paper...

This paper analyzes one-way access and, in particular, local loop unbundling (LLU) in telecommunications markets. At present, LLU seems most promising as a means for entrants to offer broadband internet access. As voice telephony can be implemented by using the 'internet protocol' when consumers...

Energy products such as power, gas, and oil have long been the world's premier commodities. Consumers demand that power and fuel are available when they want it and they prefer to pay less for it. Few know or care where their fuel or power comes from. So for years energy companies believed that...