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2006 Program 

    

Sunday, October 1, 2006

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Sessions

  

 

Industry Structure
    

Moderator:  

Bill Sharkey
    

Papers:

Metaphors, Myths, and Manipulation:   How Telecommunications Consolidation is Rationalized
Harold Feld, Media Access Project
Dr. Gregory Rose,
    
Head-to-Head or Hand-in-Hand:   Does Structural Reform Have Led to Meaningful Competition in China?
Jun Xia, School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications
     
  The Impact of Mergers on Performance in the US Telecommunications Industry, 1988 to 2001
    Sumit K. Majumdar, University of Texas at Dallas
    Rabih Moussawi, Wharton Research Data Services
    Ulku Yaylacicegi, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
     
  Changes in Industry Structure and Technological Convergence:   Implications for Competition Policy and Regulation in Telecommunications
    Timothy Tardiff, National Economic Research Associates
    

Internet, Telephony and the Law

    

Moderator:  

Chris Fedeli, Cole, Raywid & Braverman
    
Papers: A Dynamic Assessment of VoIP Adoption, Innovation and their Interaction with CALEA Regulation
Chintan H. Vaishnav, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles Fine, Engineering Systems Division and Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    
Access Regulation and the Adoption of VoIP
Paul de Bijl, Tilburg University
Martin Peitz, International University in Germany and University of Mannheim
    
Impact of the Telecommunications Act 1996 on Local Telephone Service
Kenneth H. Tiedemann, BC Hydro
  
Open Access
Thomas Nachbar, University of Virginia.
    

MVNO:   Regulation and Economics

    

Moderator:  

Bruce Gottlieb
    
Papers: MVNOs in the West and the East: Will MVNO be a Western Thing?
Dong-Hee Shin, Pennslyvania State University, Berks Campus
    
Incentives to License Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
Ralf Dewenter, Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg
Justus Haucap, Ruhr-University, Bochum
  
Mobile Virtual Network Operators:   A Virtual Prisoners’ Dilemma?
Duarte Brito, Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrência
  
 

Municipal and Community Broadband

    

Moderator:  

Dale Hatfield, FCC
    
Papers: Bureaucrats as Entrepreneurs: Do Municipal Telecommunications Providers Hinder Private Entry?
    Janice A. Hauge, University of North Texas
    Mark A. Jamison, University of Florida
    R. Todd Jewell, University of North Texas
    
The Economic Effect of Municipal Broadband: Evidence from Municipal Electric Utilities in the United States
Carlos Osorio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
    
Municipal Responses to State-Level Broadband Internet Policy
Andrea H. Tapia, College of Information Sciences & Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
Julio Angel Ortiz , College of Information Sciences & Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
    
    
Community Organizations and ICT Service/Information Delivery
Vanda Rideout, University of New Brunswick
Andrew Reddick,
Susan O’Donnell,
William McIver Jr.,
    
 

Privacy, Security and e-Business

    

Moderator:  

Julie Cohen
    
Papers: Beyond Consent:   Implications of Ubicomp for Privacy
    L. Jean Camp, Indiana University
    Kay Connelly, Indiana University
    Lesa Lorenzen-Huber , Indiana University
    
Understanding the Impact of Privacy Breaches
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Allan Friedman, Harvard University
Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University
    
The Myth of the Superuser
Paul Ohm, University of Colorado School of Law.
    
Public Goods and Externalities Aspects of Internet Security:   Modeling the Spill-over Effects of Interrelated Risks and Solutions
Ruperto Majuca, Department of Economics, Weber State University
    

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