Scott Wallsten
Scott Wallsten is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and public policy. His research focuses on telecommunications, regulation, competition, and technology policy. His research has been published in numerous academic journals and his commentaries have appeared in newspapers and newsmagazines around the world. He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
He is currently vice president for research and a senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, a lecturer in Public Policy at Stanford University, and a special consultant for Economists Incorporated. He has been director of communications policy studies and senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a senior fellow at the AEI - Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an economist at The World Bank, a scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a staff economist at the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Contributions:
Senior Policy Fellow, Scott Wallsten, Named as the economics director of the FCC Broadband Task Force - August 2009
An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband Plan, with Robert W. Hahn - June 2009
Enabling Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum Markets, with by John Mayo - June 2009
Understanding International Broadband Comparisons, originally published by The Technology Policy Institute - May 2008
Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience - April 2008
Using Procurement Auctions to Allocate Broadband Stimulus Grants, Comments of 71 Concerned Economists, Economic Policy Vignette - April 2009
Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan, Economic Policy Vignette - March 2009
The Competetive Implications of the DTV Transition, Economic Policy Vignette - September 2008
Managing the Network? Rethink Prices, not Net Neutrality, Economic Policy Vignette - February 2008
