PROGRAM: TPRC '99

Saturday, September 25, 1999

1:00pm-7:00pm Registration

Tutorials:

2:15pm-4:00pm
Session 1:  Intellectual Property Primer

Chair: Julie Cohen, Georgetown Univ.
Presenter: Peter Menell, University of California at Berkeley

4:15pm-6:00pm
Session  2:  Recent Developments in Copyright and Database Protection

Presenters:     Seth Greenstein, McDermott, Will & Emery
                      Bruce Joseph, Wiley, Rein & Fielding

5:30pm-6:30pm  Reception/Cash Bar

6:30pm-7:30pm  Dinner

7:30pm-9:00pm  Opening Session

Welcoming Remarks by:  Benjamin M. Compaine, Program Committee Chair

Plenary Session:   Restructuring Telecom for the New Millennium:  Is Bigger Better?

Chair:           Bill Rogerson, Northwestern University
Panelists:      Robert Crandall, Brookings Institution
                    Barbara Dooley, Commercial Internet  Exchange Association
                    Esther Dyson, Edventure Holdings
                    Michael Katz, University of California at Berkeley

Sunday, September 26, 1999

7:30am-4:00pm Registration

7:30am-8:30am Breakfast

8:30am-10:00am
Sessions:

Title: Pricing Structures

Chair: Hal Varian, Univ. of California at Berkeley
Papers:
Pricing and Admissions Policy:  Using Hold Options Over IP Networks [Abstract] [Paper]
Judith Molka-Danielsen and Ketil Danielsen, Molde College
Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Intermediation:  A Case Study of Peapod [Paper:PDF]
Karen Clay and Eric Wolff, Carnegie Mellon University
One Size Doesn't Fit All:  Improving Network QoS Through Preference-Driven Web Caching [Abstract] [Paper:PDF]
Yee Man Chan, Jonathan Womer and Jeff MacKie-Mason; Univ. of Michigan

Title: Developing Countries

Chair:  Rajni Gupta, University of Toronto
Discussant: Heather Hudson, Univ. of San Francisco
Papers:
Less News is Good News:  Fifty Years of Communication Policy in a Volatile Democracy [Abstract]
Amit Schejter, Tel Aviv Univ.
The Regulation of Internet Services in North Africa [Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF]
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Expansion of Accessibility of Telecom. Infrastructure in Emerging Nations:  The Case of Bangladesh
Brian L. Anderson and L. Jean Camp, Harvard University, and Amitabh Dabla, American University

Title: Evolution Of Industry Structure

Chair: William Sharkey, Federal Communications Commision
Papers:
Impact of Mergers and Global Rivalry on Local Network Competition [Abstract]
Mark Jamison, Univ. of Florida
Building and Delivering the Virtual World:  Commercializing New Services in Internet Access
Shane Greenstein, Northwestern Univ.
Network Transmission and Storage:  Vertical Relationships and Industry Structure
John Chung-I Chuang, Univ. of California at Berkeley
The Industrial Organization of the U.S. Internet Service Provider Industry
Joseph Bailey , Univ. of Maryland

Title: Intellectual Property

Chair: Julie Cohen, Georgetown University
Papers:
Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University and Mark Lemley , Univ. of Texas
Implications of Contractual Restriction of Software Use for Implementation of the Local Competition Policy of the Communications Act of 1996
David Rice, Roger Williams Univiversity
Patenting Speech
Dan Burk, Univ. of Minnesota
A Historical Analysis of Copyright Liability
Matt Jackson, Penn State Univ.

10:00am-10:30am Break

10:30am-12:00pm
Sessions:

Title: Electronic Political Participation

Chair: Lorrie Faith Cranor, AT&T Labs-Research
Discussant: Paul Craft, Florida Department of State
Papers:
Policy Ramifications of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTS)
Paul Baker, George Mason Univ.
The Political Economy of Electronic Democratic Forums:  The Design of Californian Municipal Web Sites [Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF]
Christopher Weare, Juliet Musso and Matthew Hale; Univ. of Southern California
On-Line Voting:  Calculating Risks and Benefits to the Community and the Individual
James Brent and Linda Valenty, San Jose State University

Title: Vertical Foreclosure

Chair:  Sharon Black
Papers:
Market Foreclosure and Exclusivity Contracts When Consumers Have Switching Costs [Abstract:PDF][Paper:PDF]
Tommaso Valletti , London School of Economics
The Use of Financial Contracting to Control Downstream Firms:  An Analysis of Silver King Communications [Abstract] [Paper:PDF]
Robert Kieschnick, University of Texas at Dallas and Michael S. Cichello, Michigan State University
Microsoft vs. Netscape:  Policy for Dynamic Models Anti-trust and Intellectual Property Rights Revisited [Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF]
David Allen, Harvard Univ.
Aftermarkets in Innovation
Marshall van Alstyne, Univ. of Michigan and Doug Lichtman, Univ. of Chicago

Title: Internet And Mass Media

Chair: Jonathan Levy, Federal Communications Commision
Discussant: Eli Noam, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Papers:
Newspaper Online Services:  A Successful Business?  Lessons Learned from Videotext Failure [Abstract][Paper: PDF]
Ya-Ching Lee, Indiana University
Electronic Commerce and Free Speech [Paper:PDF]
Jessica Litman, Wayne State University
Mergers, Divestitures and the Internet:  Is Ownership of the Media Industry Becoming too Concentrated? [Abstract]
Benjamin Compaine, Harvard University

Title: Universal Service:  Social Perspective

Chair: Ingo Vogelsang, Boston University
Papers:
Universal Service and Community Development
John Horrigan , National Research Council
Expanding the Menu: An Informed Choice Model of Universal Service for an Integrated Digital Environment [Paper]
Jorge Schement and Scott Forbes, Penn State University
Rural Internet Connectivity
Sharon Strover, Univiversity of Texas at Austin
The Rural Differential:  A Comparison Study of Demographic Characteristics Between Rural and Non-Rural Telco Service Areas [Paper:PDF]
Vicki Hobbs and John Bodgett, University of Missouri-Columbia

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch
Lunch Plenary Session
Title:  The Open Source Revolution:  Towards a World of Reliable Software

Speaker: Brian Behlendorf, Collab.Net and The Apache Software Foundation

1:45pm-3:15pm
Sessions:

Title: User Studies

Chair: Ken Anderson, MediaOne
Papers:
The Impact of the Internet on Community Involvement: A Network Analysis Approach
[Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF]
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Internet Adoption and Usage in China [Abstract:PDF][Paper:PDF]
Xueping Du, Penn State University
Policy Challenges for Conflict Monitoring Networks [Abstract]
Anton Ivanov, FEWER and Kristen Foot, University of Pennsylvania
The Death of Cities? The Death of Distance? Evidence from the Geography of Commercial Internet Usage
Jed Kolko, National Bureau of Economic Research

Title: Policy And Standards

Chair: Walter S. Baer, RAND/USC
Papers:
Consumer Access Equipment Standards: Market or Government Solutions?
Edward Gallick, FERC; Andrew Wise and Karen Duwadi; FCC
The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War:  Network Effects and Empirical Evidence of Vaporware [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF] [Figure 1 PDF]
David Dranove,  Northwestern University and Neil Gandal , Tel Aviv Univ. and CEPR
Standards WARS:  The Use of Standard Setting as a Means of Facilitating Cartels Third Generation Wireless Telecommunications Standard Setting
David J. Salant, Peter Grindley; LECG, Inc. and Leonard Waverman; LECG Ltd, and London Business School
The Law of Opposite Numbers:  Standards Dynamics and the Global Logic of Software [Abstract]
Phil Agre, Univ. of California

Title: Strategies Of Incumbents

Chair: Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business
Papers:
Number Pooling:  Is 1000 Block Pooling the Answer?
Susan McMaster , PHB Hagler Bailly
Strategic Challenges of New Entrants in Australian and New Zealand Telecommunications Markets
Kellie Caught, M.A. Shadur and R. Kienzel; Queensland Univ. of Tech.
Competition's Effect on Investment in Digital Infrastructure
Glenn Woroch, Univiversity of California, Berkeley
Competition Between Firms that Bundle Information Goods [Abstract][Paper:PDF]
Scott Fay and Jeff MacKie-Mason, Univ. of Michigan

Title: US And EU Regulatory

Chair: Luigi Prosperetti, Univ. of Milan-Italy
Papers:
The Irony of Telecommunications Deregulation:  Assessing the Role Reversal in U.S. and European Union Policy [Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF] [Table1:PDF] [Table2:PDF] [Figure1:PDF]
Barbara Cherry, Michigan State Univ.
Mandatory Resale Rules in Long Distance Markets: Regulation Searching for an (Economic) Justification
Jim Speta, Northwestern University
Reforming TV Regulation for the Digital Era:  An International/Cross-Industry Perspective
Hernan Galperin and Francois Bar, Stanford Univ.
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Communications Regulation
Christopher Marsden, Univ.of Warwick and Harvard Univ.; and Campbell Cowie, BBC

3:15pm-3:45pm Break

3:45pm-5:15pm
Sessions:

Title: Privacy

Chair: Joel Reidenberg, Fordham Univ. Law School
Papers:
Knowledge Gaps in the Public Understanding of E-Commerce
Peter Lunt, Univ. College London
The Implications of Users' Privacy Perception on Communication and Information Privacy Policies [Abstract] [Paper:PDF]
Anne Adams, Univ. College of London
Understanding Net Users' Attitudes About Online Privacy [Abstract][Paper:PDF]
Lorrie Faith Cranor; AT&T Labs-Research, Joseph Reagle; MIT, and  Mark Ackerman, Univ. of Calfornia, Irvine

Title: Tradeable Rights

Chair: Howard Shelanski, FCC
Papers:
Completing the Transition to Digital Television
Coleman Bazelon, Congressional Budget Office
The Resolution of Digital Television: How the Focus of HDTV and Must-Carry are Hindering the Return of the Analog Television Spectrum
Cory Allen and Elena Larsen; Univ. of Pennsylvania
A "Smart Market" for Trading of Radio Spectrum
Martin Taschdjian, MediaOne International and Mark Bykowsky, Automated Credit Exchange
A Market-Based Mechanism for Universal Service Obligations [Abstract] [Paper:PDF]
Jon Peha, US Congress and Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Title: Local Access Competition

Chair: Marvin Sirbu, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Papers:
TELCOMP - A Model for Determining  the Viability of Local Exchange Competition [Paper:PDF]
Joseph Weber; Jeffrey Rohlfs and Calvin Monson, Strategic Policy Research, Inc.
Dominant Firm Pricing with Price-Cap Regulation and Fringe Competition:  An Economic Analysis of Local Telephone Pricing
Jaison Abel, Ohio State Univ.
Availability of Broadband Internet Access:  An Empirical Analysis
Sharon Eisner Gillett and William Lehr, MIT
National Divergence in Developing Broadband Internet Access: The Specifics of the GermanCase
Volker Wittke and Heidemarie Hanekop, Univ. of Goettingen

Title: International Trade

Chair:  Douglas Galbi, FCC
Papers:
Squaring the Circle:  Rebalancing Tariffs Whilst Promoting Universal Service in Jamaica [Abstract]
Geoffrey Myers , Office of Utilities Regulation
Implications of International Accounting Rate Reform for Developing Countries
Yu-Mee Lee, Korea Telecom Research Laboratories
Global Telecommunications, Electronic Commerce, and the World Trade Organization:  Considerations on the "Millenium Round" [Abstract]
William Drake, The Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace
Dominant Carrier Market Power in US International Telephone Markets
Scott Savage, Gary Madden; Curtin Univ. of Technology and James Alleman, Univ. of Colorado

6:00pm  Reception

7:00pm-9:00pm Dinner

Monday, September 27, 1999

7:30am-8:30am Breakfast

7:30am-12:00am Registration

8:30am-10:00am
Sessions:

Title: E-Commerce

Chair: Phil Agre, Univ. of California
Papers:
Strategic Use of the Internet by Small and Medium Sized Firms:  An Exploratory Study
Bert Sadowski, Carleen Maitland and Jochem van Dongen; SEPA,  TU Delft
Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Field Evidence [Abstract: PDF] [Paper: PDF]
Jeff MacKie-Mason, Juan F. Riveros and Robert Gazzale , Univ. of Michigan
Will E-Commerce Compete More Traditional Retailing or Direct Marketing?
Michael Ward, Univ. of Illinois
Community Level Socio-Economic Impacts of Electronic Commerce [Abstract:PDF] [Paper: PDF]
Charles Steinfield, TU Delph and Pamela Whitten, Michigan State University

Title: Developed Countries

Chair: Martin Cave, Brunel Univ.
Papers:
Experimenting with Regulatory Shortcuts in Europe [Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF]
Luigi Prosperetti, Univ.  of Milan-Italy; Michela Cimatorbus and Cinzia Dalla Torre, MCI WorldCom Italy
Economic Analysis of Interconnection Charge Policy
Jeffrey Rohlfs, Strategic Policy Research, Inc.
Universal Service in Europe - Talk is Cheap But Data Is Not [Abstract:PDF]
Richard Cawley, European Commission
Competition and the Pricing of Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Johannes Bauer and Hyun-Oh Yoo, Michigan State Univ.

Title: Internet Interconnection

Chair: John Hayes, Charles River Associates
Papers:
When Internet Peers Become Customers:  The Consequences of Settlement-based Interconnection [Abstract] [Paper:PDF]
Rob Frieden, Penn State Univ.
Cost/Benefit Tradeoff of Quality of Service Mechanisms in Integrated Services Networks [Paper:PDF]
Martin Weiss and Junseok Hwang, Univ. of Pittsburgh
The Information Interchange: Interconnection on the Internet [Paper:PDF]
Michael Kende and Jason Oxman, FCC
Competitive Effects of Internet Peering Policies
Bridger Mitchell, Padmanabhan Srinagesh; Charles River Associates and Paul Milgrom, Stanford Univ. and Charles River Associates

Title: Institutional Design For Internet Governance

Chair: Diane Cabell; Fausett, Gaeta & Lund
Discussant: Milton Mueller, Syracuse University
Papers:
Semi-Private International Rulemaking:  Lessons Learned from the WIPO Domain Name Process
Michael Froomkin, Univ. of Miami
Institutional Designs for Internet Governance:  The Story of ICANN
Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School

10:00-10:30am Break

10:30am-12:00pm
Sessions:

Title: Regulation And Online Activities

Chair: Robert Pepper, FCC
Papers:
The Internet:  Implications for Regulation and Public Policy
Aniruddha Banerjee and Agustin Ros, NERA
Internet Data Management:  Policy Barriers to an Intermediated Electronic Market in Data
Thomas Lee,  MIT
In a World Without Borders:  The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce
Austan Goolsbee, Univ. of Chicago
Hardware-Based ID, Rights Management, and Trusted Systems
Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State Univ.
Will Tomorrow Be Free? Application of State Action Doctrine to Private Internet Providers
Irina Dmitrieva, University of Florida at Gainesville

Title: Policy Impacts On Investment

Chair: Martin Taschdjian, MediaOne International
Papers:
A Post-Modem Regulatory Policy for Telecommunications
Martin Taschdjian, MediaOne International
Basic Local Telephone Rates:  Comparing Plans for Restructuring [Abstract] [Paper]
Stephen McDowell and Kostadin Kostadinov, Florida State Univ.
Competition as a Turbulent Process:  Lessons for Telecommunications Regulatory Reform [Abstract:PDF] [Paper:PDF]
Johannes Bauer, Michigan State Univ.
Telecommunications, the Internet, and the Cost of Capital
William Lehr , Columbia Univ. and MIT; Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University

Title: Statistical Analysis Of Producer And Regulator Behavior

Chair: Shane Greenstein, Northwestern Univ.
Papers:
Organizing and Engaging in Non-market Activity:  A Transactional Analysis of Corporate Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission
John de Figueiredo, MIT and Emerson Tiller, Univ. of Texas at Austin
An Empirical Examination of Entry Behavior in Local Telephone Markets [Paper:PDF]
James Zolnierek, James Eisner and Ellen Burton, FCC
A Taxonomy of Communications Demand [Paper:PDF]
Steven Lanning, Lucent Technologies; W. Russell Neuman, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Shawn O'Donnell, MIT
A Financial Understanding of Telecommunication Takeovers:  the Effect of Takeover Characteristics on the Shareholders' Wealth
Seongcheol Kim, Dong-woon Kim and Cho-kyoung Park, Michigan State Univ.

Title: Universal Service:  Economic Perspective

Chair: Bridger Mitchell, Charles River Associates
Papers:
Universal Service in the United States and Canada:  Funding High-Cost Areas
Timothy Tardiff , NERA and Willie Grieve, TELUS Communications Inc.
Local Access Over analog Cellular Networks:  Implications for Universal Service Funding and Commercial Mobile Radio Service Carriers
Alan Boyer, HAI Consulting
Winners and Losers from the Universal Service Subsidy Battle
Gregory Rosston , Stanford Univ. and Bradley Wimmer, UNLV
An Economist's Perspective on Universal Residential Service [Abstract]
Michael Riordan, Boston Univ.

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch

Conference Adjournment