Economic Policy Vignettes

Economic Policy Vignettes highlight the policy implications of academic research.  If you would like to submit work to be included as an Economic Policy Vignette, please contact the Georgetown Center.

• Financing Small and Medium Enterprises – It’s about Demand as well as Supply, a paper by Neil Gregory, May 2013
• Layovers May Be Riskier Than You Think, a paper by Luca Anderlini and Leonardo Felli, April 2013
• Is the U.S. Government’s Internet Policy Broken?: A Review of Captive Audience by Susan Crawford, a paper by Robert Hahn and Hal Singer, January 2013
• Rational Broadband Investment: Why the FCC’s New Task Force Is a Good Step Forward, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, December 2012
• A New Form of Services Trade Agreement Moving Ahead in Geneva: “The International Services Agreement”, a paper by J.Robert Vastine, November 2012
• Is it Time to Unify Telecommunications Policy?, a paper by Jeffrey Macher and John Mayo, October 2012
• Overlooked Opportunities for U.S. Exports of Business Services, a paper by J. Bradford Jensen, September 2012
• Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation, a paper by Jodi Short, September 2012
• Internet Policy: First Do No Harm, a paper by Robert Hahn and Peter Passell, August 2012
• The Importance of Current Data in the FCC’s Special Access Proceeding, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, May 2012
• The Wireless Revolution: Are the Elderly Keeping Up?, a paper by John Mayo and Jeffrey Macher, May 2012
• Wireless Competition: An Update, a paper by Robert Hahn and Hal Singer, May 2012
• Regulation in financial translation: Neutral Spectrum Auctions: Maximizing Proceeds and Consumer Benefit, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, February 2012
• Secondary Markets: The Quiet Economic Value Creator, a paper by Scott Wallsten and John Mayo, December 2011
• Regulation in Financial Translation: Respecting Consumers: Strategic Regulation in a World Full of Choices, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, November 2011
• The (Not-so) Dismal Science and the Super Committee: The Spectrum Option, a paper by John Mayo, November 2011
• Achieving Rural Universal Service in a Broadband Era:  Emergent Evidence from the Evolution of Telephone Demand, a paper by Jeffrey Macher and John Mayo, October 2011
• Regulation in Financial Translation:  Spectrum valuation – an investment approach, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, July 2011
• Regulation in Financial Translation:  The FCC’s Fifteenth Mobile Wireless Competition Report: Innovation, investment, growth and Competition, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, July 2011
• Regulation in Financial Translation:  Policy and investment: perspectives on two FCC broadband reports, a paper by Anna-Maria Kovacs, June 2011
• The “Wireless Tax Premium” Harms American Consumers and Squanders the Potential of the Mobile Economy, June 2011, Glenn Woroch
• Secondary Spectrum Markets as Complements to Incentive Auctions, June 2011, by John Mayo and Scott Wallsten
• Wallsten publishes new paper on Universal Broadband, April 18, 2011
• Viewpoint: Mobile Payments Call for Clear Consumer Protections, by Mark MacCarthy & Gail Hillebrand, originally published by American Banker – August 2010
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Needs a Privacy Office, by Mark MacCarthy & Robert Gellman, originally published by BNA Privacy & Security Law Report, 9PVLR 32 – August 2010
• Residential Broadband Competition, by Scott Wallsten and Colleen Mallahan – March 2010
• Benchmarking Policy in a Global Telecommunications Industry: The Case of Net Neutrality, by John W. Mayo, Bruce Owen, Marius Schwartz, Robert Shapiro, Lawrence J. White, and Glenn Woroch – April 2010
• Regulating Early Termination Fees: When “Pro-Consumer” Legislation Isn’t, by John W. Mayo – January 2010
• Where is Internet Policy Really Headed, by Robert W. Hahn, appearing through the Social Sciences Research Network – November 2009
• Globalization and Business Services: A Growth Opportunity?, by J. Bradford Jensen – November 2009
• Policymaking in the Wireless Telephone Industry: Let’s Avoid the Rorschach Approach, by John W. Mayo – August 2009
• Using Procurement Auctions to Allocate Broadband Stimulus Grants, Comments of 71 Concerned Economists – April 2009
• Regulation of Pollution Sources, a NBER digest summarizing Catherine Wolfram, Meredith Fowlie & Christopher Knittle’s work “Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources” (begins on page 3) – April 2009
• Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan, by Scott Wallsten – March 2009
• Universal Service: Can We Do More With Less?, John W. Mayo – February 2009
• The Need for Constraint on Fiscal Policy, by Antonio Fatás – January 2009
• The Competitive Implications of the DTV Transition, Scott Wallsten – September 2008
• It’s No Time to Regulate Wireless Telephony, John Mayo, originally appearing in the Economists’ Voice – February 2008
• Managing the Network? Rethink Prices, not Net Neutrality, Scott Wallsten – February 2008
• Ready, Fire, Aim: Telecommunications Policy in the Primary Season, John W. Mayo – November 2007
• Google: Trust Yet Verify, Proposed merger with DoubleClick deserves antitrust scrutiny, John W. Mayo – September 2007
• Net Neutrality: The Prequel, John W. Mayo – March 2007
• The Economic Facts and FAQs of National Video Franchising: Reflections on the House of Representatives Debate, John W. Mayo, Originally published at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center – June 2006