On Friday, May 18th the Center will host Spectrum Policy: Emerging Issues at an Inflection Moment.  The event will bring together different voices from the discussion on how to move forward to find more usable spectrum.  By all accounts the demand for spectrum is rising rapidly, heightening the issue of long term spectrum scarcity. The [...]

Senior Policy Scholar, Robert Shapiro has released a new blog post entitled, “A New Way to Boost Job Creation — and Help Save the Planet.” In the piece, Dr. Shapiro describes the “output gap” to explain why job growth in the U.S. is so slow. He calls for a short term stimulus and initiatives to [...]

Robert Hahn and Hal Singer’s latest Economic Policy Vignette, “Wireless Competition: An Update,” examines the manner in which the Federal Communications Commission handles competition analysis in the wireless industry.  Building on a larger paper co-authored with Professor Gerald Faulhaber in the Federal Communications Law Journal, the authors investigate the change in outlook of regulators when [...]

On Monday, April 23rd Senior Policy Scholar Carol Corrado will present the keynote speech at the ICTNET Workshop number four, “ICT, R&D and Intangibles – ICT Diffusion to the Economy.”  This two day conference, which is sponsored by the European Commission is taking place at Imperial College, London.  In addition to the keynote Corrado will [...]

On Tuesday, April 24th the Center will host Mindel de la Torre, Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission.  Ms. de la Torre will meet with Georgetown students to discuss, “Regulating in a World of Skeptics.” This is the inaugural event in the Center’s new initiative The Regulator’s Perspective, which brings regulators [...]