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Date: April 17, 2009

Wireless Technologies: Enabling Innovation and Economic Growth

Friday, April 17, 2009

The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor

Agenda:

9:00 AM - Welcome

9:10 AM - Opening Keynote

9:45 AM - State of the U.S. Wireless Sector

Ingo Vogelsang, Boston University, "The Relationship Between Mobile/Wireless and Fixed Line Communications: A Survey"
Gerry Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania, "Economic and Social Impact of Mobile Telephony"
Moderator: Glen Woroch, University of California, Berkeley

10:25 AM - Impediments and Faciliatators for Adoption of Wireless Inovations

Harald Gruber, European Investment Bank, “Diffusion of Innovations in Wireless Communications: An International Comparison” written with Anders Bohlin and Pantelis Koutroumpis
Anne Layne-Farrar, LECG, “Royalty Stacking in Mobile Telecom: A Closer Look at the Evidence” written with A. Jorge Padilla
Heli Koski, ETLA, “New Product Development and Firm Value In Mobile Handset Production” written with Tobias Kretschmer
Discussant, Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University
Moderator: Walter Strack, FCC

11:15 AM - Emerging Wireless Technologies and Enabling Spectrum Policy

Moderator, Evan Kwerel, FCC
Scott Wallsten, Georgetown Center for Business & Public Policy, “Secondary Spectrum Markets” written with John Mayo
Bill Lehr, MIT, “Wireless broadband needs to be rethought: the case for hybrid wireless and the role of DSA”
Bill Sharkey, FCC, “Employing Market Mechanisms to Manage Radio Spectrum”
written with Mark Bykowsky and Mark Olson
Discussant, Tom Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University

12:00 - Luncheon

1:15 - Structural Change and Regulatory Intervention

Moderator, Howard Shelanski, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkley
Brendan Cunningham, U.S. Naval Academy, “Network Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Mobile Telephone Industry” written by Peter Alexander and Adam Candeub
Greg Rosston, Stanford University, "An Antitrust Analysis of the Case for Wireless Net Neutrality" written with Michael Topper, Cornerstone Research
Glen Woroch, UC Berkeley, "The Effect of Prices on Fixed and Mobile Telephone Penetration: Using Price Subsidies as Natural Experiments" written with Michael Ward
Discussant, Nathan Goldstein, Department of Justice

2:00 PM - Panel Discussion