Saturday, October 3, 1998 2:00pm-7:00pm Registration Tutorial I: 2:15pm-4:00pm Title: INTERNET TELEPHONY Speakers: Tutorial II: 4:15pm-6:00pm Title: E-COMMERCE Speaker: 5:30pm-6:30pm Reception/Cash Bar . Hosted by the Sponsors of TPRC 6:30pm-7:30pm Dinner 7:30pm-9:00pm Opening Session Welcoming Remarks by: Jorge R. Schement, Program Committee
Chair Special Recognition of Colin Blackman Presentors: Plenary Session : Net Heads vs. Bell Heads: Which Paradigm for Telecommunications Will Prevail? Chair: Panelists: 7:30am-8:30am Breakfast 8:30am-10:00am Sessions: CONTENT CONTROLS Chair: Michael Froomkin, University of Miami Discussant: Mark Lemley, University of California Papers: First Amendment's Limitations on the Use of Internet
Filtering in Public Schools & Libraries. [Abstract][Paper PDF] Internet Control in Asia: Implications of New Media &
Supranational Policy-Making. The Architectures of Mandated Access Controls. [Abstract][Paper] MASS MEDIA, OLD AND NEW Chair: Benjamin Compaine, Harvard University Papers: Do People Not Subscribe to Cable Television Because They Can
Not Afford the Service? A Review of the Evidence. [Paper PDF] The Economics of American Movie Exports: An Empirical
Analysis. Uses & Gratification’s of the World-Wide Web in an
Educational Context. Are American Media Becoming More Concentrated? [Paper] SECURITY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS: CAN POLICY PROMOTE PROGRESS? Chair: Marjory Blumenthal, National Research Council And Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discussant: Charles Holland, Defense Research Engineering Papers: The Politics and Policies of Enhancing Trustworthiness. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF] Critical Infrastructures You Can Trust: Where
Telecommunications Fits. [Abstract
PDF] [Paper PDF] INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT Chair: David Tennenhouse, DARPA/ITO Papers: Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets. The Internet and Other Networks: Utilization Rates and Their
Implications.[Abstract][Paper PDF] Implications of Local Loop Technology for Future Industry
Structure.[Abstract][Paper PDF] Deregulation and Reform in the Israeli Telecommunications
Sector: Transition to a Competitive Industry. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF] 10:00am-10:30am Break 10:30am-12:00pm Sessions: PRIVACY Chair: Jessica Litman, Wayne State University Discussant: Michael Nelson, IBM Papers: Tele-Privacy: The European Union Directive on Data Protection
in Telecommunications. Financial Privacy: Implications of Money Laundering Law for
Encryption and CALEA. The Architecture of Identity. CONVERGENCE: REGULATORY IMPLICATIONS Chair: Luigi Prosperetti, University of Milan-Italy Discussant: Luigi Prosperetti, University of Milan-Italy Papers: Telecommunications Regulations in the United States and
Europe: The Case for Centralized Authority. Convergence, Competition and Regulation. Asymmetric Regulation of Converging Markets: Problems,
Pitfalls and Potential. UNBUNDLED ACCESS Chair: Daniel Kelley, HAI Consulting, Inc. Papers: So Near and Yet So Far: A Comparative Analysis of Network
Unbundling and Local Competition in Canada and the U.S.A. Regulating Prices to Equal Forward Looking Costs: Cost-Based
Prices or Price-Based Costs? Vertical Disintegration: Optimal Pricing for Wholesale
Telecommunications Services The Economics of BOC Long Distance Entry While charging Above
Costs Access Rates THE TRANSITION TO DIGITAL TV Chair: Jonathan Levy, Federal Communications Commission Papers: Selling Digital Television to the Consumer – Lessons
from the Computer Trenches: It’s got to be More Than Pretty Pictures Digital Television Developments in the Cable Industry [Abstract][Paper PDF] Surviving the Digital Chasm – The Broadcasters’
Business Challenge[Abstract][Paper] DTV: Things to Come 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch Lunch Plenary Session: THE PROPER ROLE OF ANTITRUST IN 21ST CENTURY TELECOM REGULATION Chair: Thomas Krattenmaker, Federal Communication Commission Panelists: 1:45pm-3:15pm Sessions: TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT Chair: Robert Pepper, Federal Communications Commission Discussant: Robert Pepper, Federal Communications Commission Papers: Promoting Telephone Competition: A Simpler Way? The Internet and "Telecommunications Services",
Access Charges, Universal Service Mechanisms and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System.
Dynamics of Price Regulation: I. Basic Model. When Agencies are Captured by Experts: The Irony of
Telecommunications Reform REGULATORY EXPERIENCE - DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Chair: Martin Cave, Brunel University Discussant: Martin Cave, Brunel University Papers: An Econometric Analysis of Institutional Factors in
Telecommunication Reform. The New Regulatory Regime and Market Entry in Germany. Transforming the Management of Telcos in Australia and New
Zealand. IP TELEPHONY ENGINEERING COST MODELS Chair: David Reed, CableLabs Discussant: David Reed, CableLabs Papers: Internet Telephony or Circuit Switched Telephony: Which is
Cheaper?[Paper PDF] Cost-Engineering Model of IP Telephony on Corporate Intranet.
IP-Based Residential Telephone Network: Economic and Public
Policy Analysis. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Chair: Nicholas Economides, New York University Papers: The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms: Fostering Cooperation on
the Internet. [Abstract][Paper] Public vs. Private Networks: The Effect on Market Structures
in Electronic Commerce. Bundling and Competition on the Internet. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF] 3:15pm-3:45pm Break 3:45pm-5:15pm Sessions: STATES Chair: Richard Taylor, Penn State University Papers: Interconnection Pricing and Competition in the Local
Telephone and Internet Industries. Determining the Rules of the Game: Regulatory Regime Adoption
in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry. Spectrum Auctions, the Telecommunication Act of 1996 and
Local Governments' "Wireless Telecommunication Policies". [Abstract] ADSL Deployment: Law, Economics and Strategy INTERNET AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND NAMES Chair: Sharon Eisner Gillett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Papers: Funding Models for AIN-Based Local Number Economic Analysis of Address Portability. Trademarks and Domain Names: Property Rights and
Institutional Evolution in Cyberspace. [Abstract] SOFTWARE COMPETITION Chair: Glenn Woroch, University of California, Berkeley Papers: Durable Goods Monopoly with Network Externalities with
Application to the PC Operating Systems Market Strategic Coordination Between Hardware and Software
Producers in the Presence of Network Externalities. Effecting a Price Squeeze Through Bundled Pricing. [Abstract PDF] Influencing Software Use. [Abstract][Paper PDF] SOCIAL ISSUES IN UNIVERSAL SERVICE Chair: Robert Frieden, Pennsylvania State University Papers: Universalizing Universal Service Obligation: A European
Perspective.[Abstract] From Welfare to Innovation: Toward a New Rationale for
Universal Service. [Paper
PDF] The Persistent Gap in Telecommunications: Toward
Hypotheses and Answers. Without Public Peer: The Potential Regulatory and
Universal Service Consequences of Internet Balkanization 6:00pm
Busses leave for Old Town Alexandria Monday, October 5, 1998
7:00am-8:00am Breakfast 8:00am-9:30am Sessions: TELECOMS REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Chair: Patricia Aufderheide, American University Papers: Advanced IT Markets in Backward Countries: Where Do
They Come From? Policy Design for Telecom Infrastructure Growth:
Competition as a Tool for Network Expansion. "Peripheral Realism" Communications Policy GII Initiatives: A Critical Assessment. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE Chair: Bridger Mitchell, Charles River Associates Discussant: Ingo Vogelsang, Boston University Papers: Using Cost Proxy Models to Analyze Universal Service Funding
Options. Proxy Models and the Funding of Universal Service. Some Economics of COLR (Carrier of Last Resort) Auctions.
[Abstract] The Cost of the Local Telecommunications Network: A
Comparison of Minimum Spanning Trees and the HAI Model [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF] ANTITRUST CONCERNS IN NETWORK INDUSTRIES Chair: John Woodbury, Charles River Associates Papers: Why Aren’t The RBOC’s Entering the Local and
Long-distance Markets Outside of Their Incumbent Territories? [Abstract] Regulating Anti-competitive Behavior in the Internet Market:
An Applied Imputation Model for Developing Countries, the Case of Peru [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF] Competitive Incentives in Vertical Mergers 9:40am-11:10am PLENARY SESSION: THE FEDERAL POLICY RESEARCH AGENDA Chair: Brian Kahin, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Panel: 11:10am-11:30am Break 11:30am-1:00pm Sessions: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Chair: Wendy Gordon, Boston University Discussant: Ken Carter, CITI Papers: Shared Information Goods. [Abstract PDF] The Commons as a Neglected Factor of Information Policy. [Abstract][Paper PDF] Copyright Law and Price Discrimination INTER/INTRANET EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONS Chair: Jeff MacKie-Mason, University of Michigan Papers: Intranets and Organizational Change: The Evolutionary
Deployment of Corporate Information Infrastructure [Paper PDF] Internet Price Discrimination: Self-Regulation, Public
Policy, and Global Electronic Commerce The Impact of Settlement Issues on Business Evolution in the
Internet [Paper PDF] SPECTRUM ALLOCATION AND AUCTIONS Chair: Evan Kwerel, Federal Communications Commission Discussant: Gregory Rosston, Stanford University Papers: Collusive Bidding: Lessons from the FCC Spectrum Auctions.
Combination Bidding in Spectrum Auctions.
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