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January 6th, 2025

During this week’s International Economics Seminar, Pablo Fajgelbaum, Professor of Economics at UCLA and a research associate at the NBER, presented novel research on the consumer implications of…

January 6th, 2025

At this week’s International Economics seminar, Yulu Tang, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College, presented her research article, “To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant…

December 17th, 2024

In the first episode of the Center for Business and Public Policy’s Distinguished Alumni Spotlight series, Rubén López Rivas (MBA ’12) shares his inspiring journey from systems engineering in…

December 13th, 2024

The largest supermarket merger in U.S. history is off. On December 10th, federal and state judges backed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in blocking Kroger’s $24.6 billion bid to acquire…

December 2nd, 2024

At a recent International Economics seminar hosted by the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, Feodora Teti, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, presented her recent…

December 1st, 2024

As part of the Center for Business and Public Policy’s flagship AI in Action Conference series, the “Jobs in the Age of AI” event hosted a thought-provoking discussion on the evolving impact of…

November 22nd, 2024

On November 19, the CBPP welcomed Josie Brocca, Director General at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, who delivered an insightful and comprehensive presentation, From Digital…

November 21st, 2024

Coca-Cola’s latest holiday ad campaign, created entirely with artificial intelligence, has sparked debate about the future of creativity and the impact of AI on industries like advertising. The…

November 20th, 2024

In a new paper from CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Timothy DeStefano and colleagues, Do Capital Incentives Distort Technology Diffusion? Evidence on Cloud, Big Data, and AI, featured in VOXEU, DeStefano…

November 19th, 2024

In his latest article featured in Chicago Booth’s ProMarket publication, CBPP Director John Mayo critically examines claims that the antitrust policies of Federal Trade Commission Chair…

November 8th, 2024

In his recent article featured by the Brookings Institution, The Evolving Safety and Policy Challenges of Self-Driving Cars, CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Mark MacCarthy examines the need for stronger…

November 8th, 2024

On October 30, 2024, the Center for Business and Public Policy welcomed Sarah Box, the 2024 New Zealand Harkness Fellow and digital policy expert from New Zealand’s Ministry of Business,…

October 31st, 2024

In a groundbreaking analysis featured in National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Working Paper Series, CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Yunan Ji, along with co-author Parker Rogers, reveals the…

October 31st, 2024

During this week’s webinar featuring Nathan Leamer, founder of Fixed Gear Strategies, the discussion focused on what tech and telecom issues will rise to prominence under the next administration.…

October 23rd, 2024

At the most recent Georgetown on the Hill event, hosted in Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies and live-streamed globally, Professor John Mayo of the McDonough School of Business welcomed an…

October 22nd, 2024

In her latest ‘Extra Credit’ episode, CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Cathy Tinsley offers practical tips on how to engage in political conversations without creating conflict—just in time for…

October 15th, 2024

Jeffrey T. Macher’s working paper, “Does Early Regional Scientific Leadership Translate Into Lasting Innovation Advantage?” explores the long-term impact of early scientific leadership on regional…

October 7th, 2024

John Mayo’s latest article in the Network Law Review, “New Insights into the Evolution of Judicial Standards in U.S. Merger Cases,” offers a digestible overview of his broader research, where…

October 4th, 2024

The Urban Economics Association (UEA) held its 2024 North American Meeting at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21. The conference featured a…

October 4th, 2024

During this week’s webinar featuring Richard Bennett, Founder and Publisher of High Tech Forum and co-inventor of Wi-Fi 802.11, the discussion focused on the origins of Wi-Fi, its technical…

October 2nd, 2024

On September 19, 2024, Hall Wang, MBA/MPP ’19, led a Lunch & Learn session at the McDonough School of Business, where he discussed the advantages of the MBA Non-Market Strategy (NMS)…

September 17th, 2024

Date: September 4, 2024 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. YouTube Playlist: Jobs in the Age of AI: Third Annual AI in Action Conference Event Details:  How are firms…

September 7th, 2024

Ahead of the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger, Professor John Mayo provides insights into the complex relationship between competition and grocery pricing. He explains that while competition plays…

August 23rd, 2024

A prolonged shutdown of Canadian freight rail companies due to labor disputes could seriously disrupt U.S. supply chains, driving up prices and slowing down the economy, experts warn. While the…

August 8th, 2024

The recent landmark ruling in U.S. v. Google, which labels the tech giant as a monopolist, is viewed as a significant victory for antitrust regulators. However, Executive Director of Georgetown’s…

April 11th, 2024

Jeffrey Macher said he questions whether Nvidia will be able to meet all of the rising demand for AI chips on its own. …

April 11th, 2024

Will the CHIPS Act bring really bring semiconductor manufacturing to the U.S. soon?…

April 11th, 2024

The George Washington Law Review publishes student note by Center’s RA, Hannah Burdette…

March 9th, 2024

CBPP published an Economic Policy Vignette on the path forward for Railroad Policymaking.…

February 6th, 2024

Are Stanley Tumbler’s unsafe or are rivals capitalizing on some bad press?…

February 2nd, 2024

Tim DeStefano’s paper “Robots and export quality” is forthcoming for publication in the Journal of Development Economics. …

December 20th, 2023

This second conference in our AI in Action Series: How is AI Transforming Firms?…

December 18th, 2023

Two Center Scholars evaluate the potential changes in this newly released EPV: Oh (No) Canada!. …

December 4th, 2023

AI presents new opportunities, however concerns about potential disruptions loom. But what exactly is AI, how is it used, and what implications does it hold? Find answers to the questions in our latest Economic Policy Vignette. …

November 13th, 2023

“The threat of stiffer penalties led to more compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ rules requiring hospitals to publish their prices, a new study in JAMA Network Open found.”…

November 13th, 2023

Forbes published an article based on Center Scholar Jeffrey Macher’s research on product recalls in the medical business. …

November 7th, 2023

Tim DeStefano and John Mayo release an EPV on the early evidence of the Affordable Connectivity Program. Preliminary data suggest considerable growth in enrollment for the country as a whole with differences in uptake across regions and time.…

October 27th, 2023

Jeffrey Macher and John Mayo publish “The Evolution of Contracting: Evidence from the U.S. Freight Rail Industry” in the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.…

October 7th, 2023

Executive Director John Mayo participated as an invited panelist at the America Enterprise Institute’s program on “Will Broadband Be Affordable? Assessing Regulations for Broadband Subsidies”.…

October 3rd, 2023

Retail Dive quotes Executive Director John Mayo in a recent article on the FTC’s antitrust fight against Amazon…

September 28th, 2023

The Wall Street Journal quotes Executive Director John Mayo in a recent article about the FTC vs. Amazon …

August 24th, 2023

Center Scholar Catherine Tinsley provides expert insight into the Hollywood strikes for GU’s Ask the Expert series. …

August 22nd, 2023

New research by Center Scholar Tim DeStefano looked at the extent to which the employees of a fashion retailer followed the stocking recommendations of two algorithms: one whose workings were easy to understand and one that was indecipherable.…

July 19th, 2023

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to host this Georgetown on the Hill event designed to provide a first-look discussion of the Merger Guidelines.  The event will inform academics, lawyers, businesspeople and the general public what is in the newly proposed guidelines, what changes have been made from the 2010 Guidelines, how the proposed changes may affect firms and markets, and their potential reception by the courts.…

June 21st, 2023

The Center’s comments below are meant to provide important information on the demand-side evolution on the usage of cloud-based services.…

May 22nd, 2023

CNN interviewed John Mayo, Executive Director of The Center for Business and Public Policy, on how the debt ceiling showdown in Washington could have drastic effects on cities with military bases.…

May 9th, 2023

A new article on organizational disasters by Center scholar Catherine Tinsley was recently published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists…

May 8th, 2023

How will AI and Big Data disrupt economies? How are these technologies diffusing around the world? How are firms using AI and big data analytics, and how does this impact productivity? Are current policies appropriate for these next generation technologies? This workshop will present insights on these areas and more, featuring experts from academia, policy and industry.…

May 5th, 2023

Catherine Tinsley on How Statistical Discrimination Impacts Bias in the Workplace…

May 5th, 2023

CBPP scholars Tim DeStefano, John Mayo, Robert Press and Mark Whitener recently coauthored comments that were submitted to the Federal Trade Commission. …

May 4th, 2023

Georgetown’s Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) submitted comments to the National Telecommunications Information Administration on a clear and robust National Spectrum Policy.…

May 2nd, 2023

Georgetown on the Hill: The Center for Business and Public Policy will host a panel of experts who will debate various approaches for tackling climate change, offering their thoughts on which strategies should continue to be the focal point for these global efforts and which ideas are better off being avoided.…

April 19th, 2023

CBPP scholars Tim DeStefano, John Mayo, Robert Press and Mark Whitener recently coauthored comments that were submitted to the Federal Trade Commission. …

April 3rd, 2023

Advancing Equity in Hiring and Promotion: New Insights and Strategies presented in research by Center Scholar Catherine Tinsley…

March 14th, 2023

Executive Director John Mayo releases a new Economic Policy Vignette: “Rules to Prevent Digital Discrimination: The Economic Guideposts”.…

February 22nd, 2023

When Kate Spade and Company asked Catherine Tinsley to join its Social Impact Counsel, the answer was a clear “yes”. …

February 22nd, 2023

The challenge in some organizations is not enough risk-taking: Employees are too cautious and not willing to try new things even when they’d be beneficial, on average, for the organization. In other organizations, the problem is excessive risk-taking: Risky behavior spreads through an organization until something goes wrong.…

January 31st, 2023

Research by the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard has demonstrated that only a portion of data science projects across a wide range of organizations, such as automotive, biotech, retail and the public sector, solve challenges and lead to at-scale performance gains. Why do so few succeed? …

January 31st, 2023

The Wall Street Journal included Center scholar Tim DeStefano’s research on artificial intelligence in a 2022 article about introducing AI into the workplace.…

January 31st, 2023

When people can see how an algorithm works, they might be more inclined to second-guess its recommendations. Business leaders should keep this in mind.…

January 31st, 2023

While executives are quick to adopt artificial intelligence, front-line employees might be less willing to take orders from an algorithm. Research by the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard sheds light on what it takes for people to get comfortable with machine learning.…

January 10th, 2023

Center scholars John Mayo and Mark Whitener recently had their article “Has Merger Enforcement Really Gone Soft? Probing the Foundations of the Antitrust Reform Narrative” published in Antitrust, the premier magazine published by the American Bar Association devoted exclusively to antitrust and consumer protection.…

January 5th, 2023

“What I see, the traditional banks, as time passes, they’re going to become more digital, they already have become more digital…” Fatas explained in the segment. Watch the full Channel News…

January 5th, 2023

Senior Policy Scholar Antonio Fatas tells the Washington Post that the recent failure of FTX could have tremendous impact on the crypto currency market as a whole. Read the full Washington Post…

January 4th, 2023

CBPP is commemorating a major milestone as a premiere establishment in Washington, D.C., at the intersection of business, economics, and public …

January 4th, 2023

CBPP is commemorating a major milestone as a premiere establishment in Washington, D.C., at the intersection of business, economics, and public …

December 20th, 2022

CBPP is commemorating a major milestone as a premiere establishment in Washington, D.C., at the intersection of business, economics, and public …

December 5th, 2022

Georgetown’s CBPP hosted a Lunch Nuggets Seminar with Yusuke Kuwayama, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the UMBC, to talk about five issues related to water management. …

December 2nd, 2022

In a recent interview with the ABC News, The Center’s Academic Advisor and Professor of Strategy, Economics and Policy, Jeffrey T. Macher explains how a rail strike would negatively impact supply…

October 31st, 2022

Center Scholar and Georgetown University Professor Catherine Tinsley has been named to the Kate Spade New York Social Impact Council. The council is dedicated to “provide access to women’s…

October 27th, 2022

In a recent interview with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Center Scholar Professor Catherine Tinsley was asked to reflect on the impact of the #MeToo movement five years after it…

August 8th, 2022

Executive Director John W. Mayo and Senior Policy Fellow Scott Wallsten, along with Gregory Rosston of Stanford University, have released an Economic Policy Vignette: “From a Silk Purse to a Sow’s Ear? Implementing the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment Act”.…

July 21st, 2022

Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro and Isaac Yoder, Senior Analyst at Sonecon release policy paper entitled “Who Was Laid Off and Who Was Hired During the Pandemic: Job Losses and Subsequent…

May 14th, 2022

Date: Saturday, May 14, 2022 Location: Boston, Massachusetts On Saturday, May 14th 2022, Academic Director Jeffrey Macher, Center Executive Director John Mayo, and Postdoctoral…

March 24th, 2022

Georgetown’s Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) scholars Jeff Macher, John Mayo, and Mark Whitener recently coauthored comments that were submitted to the Federal Trade Commission and the…

March 23rd, 2022

Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 12:00pm ET Dr. Scott Wallsten, President of Technology Policy Institute and Senior Policy Scholar, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy On March…

March 15th, 2022

Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 – 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ETLocation: Zoom Proposals to fundamentally reform U.S. antitrust law and policy are being advanced not only by antitrust think tanks,…

February 8th, 2022

On Friday, February 4, Georgetown’s Center for Business and Public Policy filed comments with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to highlight the momentous opportunities…

December 19th, 2021

Center Fellows Carolyn Brandon and Jennifer Fritzsche hosted former FCC Chair Ajit Pai for a lively discussion of telecommunications policy on December 15 as part of the Center’s Little Nuggets…

November 9th, 2021

Executive Director John W. Mayo and Senior Policy Fellow Scott Wallsten have released an Economic Policy Vignette: “Babies, Bathwater and Pending Antitrust ‘Reform’: An Economic…

August 14th, 2021

Executive Director John W. Mayo and Senior Policy Fellow Mark Whitener have released an Economic Policy Vignette: “Understanding ‘Climate Change’ in U.S. Antitrust.” This EPV discusses the…

June 30th, 2021

Senior Policy Scholar Robert J. Shapiro has released an Economic Policy Vignette, “Post-Pandemic, a Strong Expansion Needs Less Personal Saving or More Government Spending.” This content of…

June 28th, 2021

The House Judiciary Committee recently advanced several bills that would allow for more regulation of companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Wisconsin Public Radio host Rob Ferrett invited…

May 11th, 2021

On May 7, 2021, John Mayo participated in a panel discussion on “Killer Acquisitions” with Douglas Melamed (Stanford), Maureen Olhausen (Baker Botts) and Danny Sokol (University of Florida). The…

April 21st, 2021

With the ink not yet dry on the recent USMCA trade agreement, new legislation proposed in Mexico would impose a quota requiring that no less than 15 percent of all video streaming productions in…

April 19th, 2021

The future of everything seems to be up for grabs, and antitrust is no exception. Like other aspects of society, antitrust has become somewhat disoriented, searching for solid ground while the…

February 11th, 2021

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021 – 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ETLocation: Virtual Seminar via Zoom The past decade has witnessed the emergence and growth of many new business models as firms seek…

January 22nd, 2021

While ongoing lawsuits will likely continue, antitrust experts don’t expect the issue to be prioritized in the early days of the Biden administration. “I suspect we’re going to be in a more…

November 13th, 2020

John W. Mayo, CBPP Executive Director, has released an Economic Policy Vignette, “Does Google Search Increasingly Harm Consumers? The Evidence isn’t as Obvious as Portrayed,” in response to popular…

October 21st, 2020

Recent policy proposals to raise the price of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) package delivery services based on an arcane cost accounting mechanism known as “fully distributed cost” (FDC) have the…

October 5th, 2020

CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Glenn Woroch has been appointed Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He began work at the Commission on September 25, 2020 amidst the COVID-19…

July 30th, 2020

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020 – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Location: Virtual Seminar via Zoom After considerable debate, discussion and dialog, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade…

June 22nd, 2020

As a result of the pandemic, internet traffic has surged, creating unanticipated strain on broadband networks around the world. In a new policy paper, Dr. Anna-Maria Kovacs examines the performance of U.S. broadband networks relative to other networks in Europe and across the OECD.…

May 19th, 2020

Senior Policy Scholar Robert Hahn presents new research on COVID-19 beliefs and behaviors with co-authors Jesper Akesson, Sam Ashworth-Hayes, Robert Metcalfe, and Itzhak Rasooly: “Fatalism, Beliefs,…

May 14th, 2020

Ferdinando Monte released today a working policy paper constructing Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility restrictions to control the spread of…

March 26th, 2020

Catherine Tinsley comments on why the risk of contracting coronavirus is not enough to keep people apart in Fox News Feature…

January 10th, 2020

Dr. Robert Shapiro, CBPP Senior Policy Scholar In a new policy paper, Dr. Robert Shapiro examines income progress over the 2017-2018 period and compares income growth to earlier periods. He…

November 22nd, 2019

Concurrent with the November release of his Economic Policy Vignette addressing vertical integration in the Brazilian multichannel audiovisual industry, Executive Director John Mayo traveled to…

November 15th, 2019

A key feature of the regulation of broadband Internet access service is whether it is regulated lightly as an “information service” under Title I of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Act) or…

November 5th, 2019

Robert Shapiro Calculates the Difficulty of Financing “Medicare for All” Programs…

September 20th, 2019

Board membership can be a pathway for women to attain CEO roles, according to new research from Georgetown University. More women than men tend to serve on boards of public companies—59…

September 12th, 2019

This doesn’t prove that board experience was the reason the women were hired as CEOs. But the researchers think there’s a strong case for correlation. “First, as board members these women get…

July 29th, 2019

The news about U.S. women’s presence in the C-suite — and especially the CEO job — has been pretty bleak. Nationwide, fewer than 5% of CEOs of public companies are women. In the Fortune…

June 19th, 2019

Infrastructure industries, ranging from transportation (e.g., rail), energy (e.g., electricity) and communications (e.g., broadband), have played prominent roles in stimulating economic growth in…

March 7th, 2019

Right now, privacy in the U.S. consists of a patchwork of state and federal laws that make it extremely difficult for an American to know his or her rights. Federal laws cover some specific…

March 5th, 2019

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 A new Accenture survey of nearly 2,000 technology and business executives in 10 countries revealed deep uncertainty about next-generation mobile network technology,…

March 1st, 2019

“There’s ‘no good solution’ to Brexit, professor says” CNBC (March 11, 2019)The “best compromise” for the U.K. and E.U. would be to revoke Article 50, but that is not likely to happen,…

January 16th, 2019

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 As winter sets in, the dark days for technology companies have been getting longer. We sympathize with the increased anxiety over the poor data hygiene…

January 8th, 2019

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Americans are caught in a fierce political struggle today over a border wall intended to discourage immigration from Latin America. It’s part of a long ongoing…

December 13th, 2018

Thursday, December 13, 2018 Cisco VNI’s latest forecast projects rapid growth for U.S. mobile data traffic over the next five years. Such growth is only possible, of course, if there is…

December 5th, 2018

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Larry Downes comments on the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s decision in favor of the AT&T-Time Warner merger in…

December 4th, 2018

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley comments on the Huffington Post’s feature article “Let’s Be Honest, Sheryl Sandberg Gets Criticized More Because…

November 30th, 2018

Friday, November 30, 2018 In a Gray TV feature, “FCC and Senate teaming up to take down robocall scams,” CBPP Executive Director John Mayo comments on the cost to American consumers of the…

November 2nd, 2018

Friday, November 2, 2018 I study disasters — disasters that arise from natural causes like hurricanes and those produced by human mistakes and mismanagement, like the massive BP oil spill.…

October 3rd, 2018

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Robert Hahn testified in a hearing titled “Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Implementation of Sound and…

September 7th, 2018

Friday, September 7, 2018 In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per…

August 23rd, 2018

Thursday, August 23, 2018 Anna-Maria Kovacs, Visiting Senior Policy Scholar, contributed a policy paper, “Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market.” She concludes that “[a]s the…

July 10th, 2018

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 The Department of Justice appears to have changed its mind again about the risks of media mergers. After being brutally trounced in an ill-conceived lawsuit to block…

June 27th, 2018

How the Disney-Fox Deal got DOJ’s Greenlight Quicker Than Expected, Variety  June 27, 2018 Larry Downes, senior industry and innovation fellow at the Georgetown Center for…

June 17th, 2018

Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this one. As US President, Donald Trump, and North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, put down their yo-yos and finally meet face-to-face after…

June 13th, 2018

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 This week’s decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to allow AT&T and Time Warner to complete their merger will bring to a close a deal that has been…

June 11th, 2018

Senior Policy Scholar J. Bradford Jensen appeared on WJLA’s segment “White House Takes Up Fight Against ‘Back-Stabbing’ Justin Trudeau” on June 10,…

June 5th, 2018

5G, or 5th generation mobile, is the next big leap in wireless communications. You’ve probably heard about it in commercials or seen it in headlines. But much of the discussion about the new…

May 24th, 2018

Maker:L,Date:2017-9-17,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y The TR Daily covered the CBPP’s May 24, 2018 discussion of 5G in “U.S. at Risk of Losing Mid-Band 5G Race, Panelists Says” by Lynn…

May 24th, 2018

Do the very vocal supporters of Net Neutrality actually want Net Neutrality? Apparently not. Rather than negotiate a straightforward legislative solution and get it enacted as a matter of…

May 16th, 2018

The morning of May 16, 2018, in advance of the Senate vote on the resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC’s 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom order, CED…

May 10th, 2018

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed a rule last month to improve transparency in science used to make policy decisions, he was roundly criticized by interest…

May 7th, 2018

The decennial census is a vital instrument in how Americans live their lives. Right now, the 2020 census is at risk and, with it, much that matters to all of us. The Trump administration, led…

May 1st, 2018

The conversation about the treatment of women in the workplace has reached a crescendo of late, and senior leaders—men as well as women—are increasingly vocal about a commitment to gender…

April 30th, 2018

The Economist hosted a debate on the Open Future: Regulating Tech Titans. Larry Downes, CBPP Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow and Project Director for the The Evolution of…

April 26th, 2018

On May 25, 2018, the European Union will enact its General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”), in which consumers will “gain the right to access data companies store about them, the…

April 24th, 2018

Julia Carpenter’s CNN Money feature “Why corporatizing feminist messages doesn’t really help women” featured Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley’s research: Challenging confidence…

April 23rd, 2018

Larry Downes joined TechFreedom’s Tech Policy Podcast to discuss disruptive innovation: The growing pace of technological innovation means both regulators and established industries are finding…

April 9th, 2018

In May the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, two years after passage by the European Parliament. This radical new privacy law, which covers any business…

March 30th, 2018

It is with great sadness that we share the news of J. Robert Vastine’s passing on Friday, March 30, 2018. Bob joined the Center as a Senior Industry Fellow in September 2012, after…

March 15th, 2018

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to announce that Kathleen Abernathy, former FCC Commissioner (2001-2005) and current Special Counsel for Wilkinson Barker…

March 12th, 2018

Exactly two years ago, I predicted in a lengthy post that eight major Internet policy initiative undertaken by the FCC under then-Chairman Tom Wheeler would fall victim, sooner rather than…

March 6th, 2018

Evaluating a proposed merger is necessarily imprecise because it requires predicting its future effects. Economic theory by itself provides little guidance since it generally supports arguments…

March 1st, 2018

Is technology-based innovation, long seen as our best hope for improving quality of life, developing sustainable energy sources and equalizing global economic opportunities, actually making…

February 22nd, 2018

The Trump administration’s infrastructure plan brings Republicans and Democrats together. This flash of bipartisanship establishes something of a streak. The administration’s infrastructure…

February 18th, 2018

Larry Downes interviews Andrew Keen about his new book, How to Fix the Future, on a recent edition of TechCrunch’s Innovate 2018. See…

February 9th, 2018

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. presidential election to the possibility of a smartphone-driven dystopia, 2018…

February 1st, 2018

Antitrust scholars, media industry experts and economists across the political spectrum have been scratching their collective heads since November, when the Department of Justice filed suit to…

January 26th, 2018

In July 2016 a pandemic broke out. Tiny monsters known as Pokémon suddenly appeared all over the world, threatening to use their fantastic powers to do battle in parks, on city blocks, and in…

December 18th, 2017

The year 2017 was a critical one for patents — limited legal monopolies granted to inventors to control the market for their innovations. Notably, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases this…

December 14th, 2017

Executive Director, John Mayo discusses the FCC’s Order to Restore Internet Freedom on WJLA-ABC’s “Good Morning…

December 14th, 2017

CBPP executive director, John Mayo, issued the following in response to the December 14, 2017, Federal Communications Commission vote on its Restoring Internet Freedom Order: While some will…

December 11th, 2017

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Forbes The FCC, more than any other federal agency, stands at an uncertain crossroads. With the election of Donald Trump, the Commission is set to have its…

December 8th, 2017

At its December 14 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to vote the Restoring Internet Freedom (RIF) order. This order will bring uniformity to the protection of…

November 29th, 2017

CBPP executive director, John Mayo, issued the following in response to the November 21, 2017, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) draft order that would, if approved next month, reverse a…

November 29th, 2017

Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley (The Raffini Family Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business) on CNBC Power Lunch discussed how companies should change their approach on…

November 29th, 2017

Notwithstanding the nation’s ideological differences, a number of practical opportunities for policymakers to improve economic welfare have emerged and for which there is considerable…

November 29th, 2017

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley (The Raffini Family Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business) on CNBC Power Lunch discussed how companies…

November 21st, 2017

Restoring Internet Freedom Order – FCC, 11-21-2017  Lawsuits, Changing Regulations And The End Of The Meg Whitman Era – Coast To Coast With Carol And Cory…

November 20th, 2017

Larry Downes’ research and commentary about the AT&T – Time Warner merger surface in several media outlets: AT&T-Time Warner Merger: Is the Battle With DOJ, or President…

November 8th, 2017

Larry Downes responds to the potential merger of AT&T and Time Warner  in a Variety feature article by Ted Johnson, AT&T-Time Warner Merger: Is the Battle With DOJ or…

November 8th, 2017

On November 8, 2017, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy convened a panel discussion of the status of the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations and…

October 30th, 2017

It’s become hip lately to bash the tech industry, and especially those of us who work in Silicon Valley. Current technologies, including social media and news sites, as well as emerging…

October 26th, 2017

Senior policy scholar Carol Corrado and her co-authors have won the Indigo Prize for their publication Improving GDP: Demolishing, Repointing or Extending? The Indigo Prize…

October 25th, 2017

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) hosted the fifth annual spectrum technology and policy forum in partnership with the Wireless Technology Association: Massive…

October 23rd, 2017

In May, at a Senate Committee hearing on broadband infrastructure at which Larry Downes testified, ranking Democrat Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) signaled strong support for a…

October 20th, 2017

In a feature Bloomberg BNA about the possibility of Sprint Corp. merging with T-Mobil US Inc., Larry Downes begged the question, “Can Sprint, can T-Mobile, last that long, and are they…

October 19th, 2017

The CBPP published an economic policy vignette, “A Sanguine Assessment of North American Freight Railroads,” on behalf of Professor Mark L. Burton of University of Tennessee,…

October 18th, 2017

CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro responded to Mr. Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers’ estimate of average household income savings due to corporate tax cuts. Shapiro is cited…

October 18th, 2017

Money.cnn.com featured CBPP senior policy scholar Robert Shapiro’s reaction to U.S. treasury secretary Mnuchin’s address to Congress. Mnuchin stated that Congress needs to take heed on the…

October 18th, 2017

It is no secret that the country is divided. Citizens have increasingly retreated to, or have been drawn to, information streams that identify different profound problems facing the country and…

October 6th, 2017

On October 6, 2017, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) hosted its latest Georgetown on the Hill event with a group of industry experts organized by J.…

October 3rd, 2017

Robert Shapiro, Senior Policy Scholar, released a policy paper, “The Politics of Widening Income Inequality In the United States, 1977 to 2014.” He concludes that “there is strong evidence…

October 1st, 2017

On October 31, 2017, Anna-Maria Kovacs was on a panel of experts on Capitol Hill to discuss Encouraging 5G Wireless Broadband Services: Benefits and Roadblocks. The event was hosted by the…

October 1st, 2017

October 31, 2017 – Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy executive director John Mayo gave the keynote address at the Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission’s…

September 28th, 2017

Unherd.com featured CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro’s comments regarding the need for creative solutions to improve digital and technological skills in areas of high unemployment…

September 13th, 2017

In today’s hyperpoliticized technology policy environment, even an annual report can cause controversy. When the FCC began collecting data last month for its yearly review of America’s…

September 11th, 2017

Anna-Maria Kovacs shared an op-ed in The Hill citing that “advocates of regulation of broadband internet service providers (ISPs) under Title II of the Communications Act claim that…

September 5th, 2017

CBPP Senior Policy Scholar and Professor of Management Catherine Tinsley, CBPP Visiting Senior Policy Scholar Olga Ukhaneva, and Professor of Public Policy Adrianna Kugler recently issued a…

September 1st, 2017

News One featured Robert Shapiro’s comments on the upcoming 2020 US census and the implications of the country “without an accurate census, many states and cities will be denied the…

August 28th, 2017

After decades of relative obscurity, antitrust is back in the headlines. Late last week, for example, the Federal Trade Commission announced it would not block Amazon’s acquisition of Whole…

August 16th, 2017

Downes co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review about the transformative trajectory of Tesla: “Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. In…

August 10th, 2017

All four of the national carriers have now reported their 2Q’17 results…the wireless industry is highly price competitive…it is also clear that T-Mobile, in particular, is gaining…

August 7th, 2017

In a feature article about globalization, Professor Jensen was interviewed and shared comments, “We know who is going to lose their jobs from this [globalization]…And so we need to create…

August 4th, 2017

What does a 15-layer taco mean for the future of video competition? Like the list of its ingredients, the answer is: pretty much everything. Last week, up-and-coming YouTube star Andrew Rea, who…

July 27th, 2017

FiveThirtyEight featured Larry Downes’ comments on rural broadband coverage in the United States: “By virtue of excluding some, the internet’s value as a network of connection was…

July 21st, 2017

Do trade remedies function to raise tariffs and create barriers, in part to reduce deficits and in part to gain leverage (which we otherwise have lost in World Trade Organization negotiations…

July 18th, 2017

Larry Downes was featured in Forbes discussing the “FCC’s May notice, which asked about the cost utility treatment for ISPs was having on innovation, both inside the network and in…

July 17th, 2017

Multichannel News featured Larry Downes’ comments submitted to the FCC. The article refers to Downes’ statements, such as: “Undoing reclassification will once again permit…

July 17th, 2017

Conference affiliated papers: Access Dr. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, organized and presented the “Airline Competition Conference” on July…

July 17th, 2017

John Mayo co-authored with a number of other prominent economists an Economic Policy Vignette, “An Economic Perspective of Title II Regulation of the Internet.” The EPV was submitted to…

July 12th, 2017

On July 12, 2017, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and a group of experts in both the history of internet regulation and current efforts to reform it had a rich…

July 11th, 2017

Scott Wallsten (Senior Policy Scholar) and Larry Downes (Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow) joined a panel of experts at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation on July 11,…

July 10th, 2017

Anna-Maria Kovacs released a policy paper, “The Effect of Title II Classification on Wireless Investment.” She puts forth that “it is not Net Neutrality itself that hinders investment in…

June 29th, 2017

On June 29, CBPP Executive Director John Mayo participated in a session on Telecommunications and Compliance at the 30th Annual Western Conference of the Center for Research in…

June 26th, 2017

On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Larry Downes testified in a hearing titled “Investing in America’s Broadband Infrastructure: Exploring Ways to Reduce Barriers to Deployment” before the Senate…

June 22nd, 2017

Washington Post The Federal Communications Commission, once a sleepy regulatory backwater, has become a deeply political agency, governed less by the science of radio waves than by pressure…

June 16th, 2017

Several speakers at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business’ “The Economics and Regulation of the Freight Rail Industry” colloquium addressed various aspects of railroad and other…

June 15th, 2017

Wireless Week Anyone who doubts that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) 2015 invocation of the Communications Act’s Title II utility-style regulation reduced broadband…

June 12th, 2017

Forbes When a new mobile service causes interference to another network, who is responsible for correcting the problem? That’s a question that will increasingly make or break emerging…

June 9th, 2017

In its weekly newsletter, Trains Magazine announced the speakers and the papers being presented at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy’s Third Annual Research…

June 7th, 2017

The Huffington Post Commencement season is upon us, and as people venture out to find “affordable luxury” graduation gifts, they may find themselves in a Kate Spade & Company…

June 2nd, 2017

Harvard Business Review In the last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two important rulings limiting patent rights. The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the…

June 1st, 2017

On May 31, in the Rayburn House Office building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a Georgetown on the Hill policy forum on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).…

May 19th, 2017

Los Angeles Times Exports account for just 4% of the sales of U.S. services that are tradeable, compared with about 20% of American manufactured goods, said J. Bradford Jensen, a professor at…

May 17th, 2017

Forbes On Thursday, the FCC will vote on a proposal to review its 2015 decision to transform Internet Service Providers into public utilities. The 2015 Order also included the most recent…

May 17th, 2017

On May 9, in the Rayburn House Office building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a Georgetown on the Hillpolicy forum on broadband competition. The…

May 15th, 2017

The Washington Post Twenty years ago, when the commercial Internet was just a handful of static Web pages and links, I started a list of predictions that have since proved very, very wrong:…

May 9th, 2017

Share: Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 -12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Rayburn House Office Building 2045, 45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20515 On May 9, in the…

April 20th, 2017

Renegotiating NAFTA – a policy forum On April 19, in the Rayburn House Office Building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a Georgetown on the Hillpolicy…

April 20th, 2017

Forbes Once more into the net neutrality breach, friends. In the waning days of the Obama administration, an increasingly activist Federal Communications Commission plunged head-first into…

April 12th, 2017

Marketplace The Trump administration has also promised big economic growth. Backing off this plan to eliminate the debt could help with that. Rob Shapiro, of Georgetown University and the…

April 11th, 2017

The Huffington Post “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, but death and taxes,” declared Ben Franklin. We hope to avoid adding the gender wage gap to the list as well. Tax Day…

April 6th, 2017

The Washington Post Here’s how not to build consumer trust in smart devices known as the Internet of Things. A recent news report describes how the inventor of a smartphone-enabled garage…

April 5th, 2017

Washington Post A House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee recently reviewed options for completing America’s impressive progress in deploying broadband infrastructure. Unlike other issues,…

April 4th, 2017

FierceTelecomIn keeping with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) helpful new transparency initiative under Chairman Ajit Pai, the agency has provided the text of the broadband data…

March 30th, 2017

Forbes The Internet is buzzing this week over a House vote Tuesday to permanently bar proposed FCC regulations regarding data collection and use first published in December from taking…

March 14th, 2017

USA Today A big part of the challenge is organizing. Having already brought millions of women together, the Women’s March provides an opportunity. On International Women’s Day, its leaders…

March 7th, 2017

Competition Policy International Journal When seeking to identify the policies required to expand competition and provide better telecommunications service to Mexican consumers, the answer is…

March 6th, 2017

Forbes As the merger of AT&T and Time Warner makes its way through antitrust review at the Department of Justice, continued disruption in the video market improves the chances the deal…

March 2nd, 2017

Thursday, March 2, 2017 CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley (the Raffini Family Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business and Faculty Director, Georgetown University…

March 2nd, 2017

Fast Company In the U.S., even though the law has been in place for over 50 years, harassment persists, says Catherine Tinsley, PhD, because “men have more social status.” Tinsley, a…

March 2nd, 2017

CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley (the Raffini Family Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business and Faculty Director, Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute)…

March 1st, 2017

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Bloomberg BNA’s Antitrust & Trade Regulation Resource CenterLarry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, said the…

March 1st, 2017

Harvard Business Review Net neutrality is a basic, but notoriously squishy, principle. It means that a broadband internet provider should not block, slow, or otherwise unfairly discriminate…

February 28th, 2017

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Tupperware Brands Corporation released a new research study on February 28, 2017, conducted in partnership with and led by Catherine Tinsley (CBPP Senior…

February 28th, 2017

Tupperware Brands Corporation released a new research study on February 28, 2017, conducted in partnership with and led by Catherine Tinsley (CBPP Senior Policy Scholar and the Raffini…

February 28th, 2017

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 The Washington Post Have you ever answered your phone only to hear an ominous message about the “IRS” demanding money, warnings from “Microsoft” that your…

February 24th, 2017

The Washington PostEven as fanatic customers can be counted on to line up outside the Apple store for the latest iPhone, there are still millions of Americans who don’t use a smartphone at…

February 24th, 2017

Friday, February 24, 2017 Bloomberg BNA / International Trade Daily The “central role played by Froman appears to be more dispersed in the Trump administration,” Bob Vastine, a senior…

February 24th, 2017

The Washington Post Even as fanatic customers can be counted on to line up outside the Apple store for the latest iPhone, there are still millions of Americans who don’t use a smartphone at…

February 24th, 2017

Bloomberg BNA / International Trade Daily The “central role played by Froman appears to be more dispersed in the Trump administration,” Bob Vastine, a senior fellow at Georgetown…

February 23rd, 2017

Thursday, February 23, 2017Chicago TribuneSome of the loudest opposition to a proposed tax on imports has come from the retail industry, which sent a handful of top CEOs to meet with President…

February 23rd, 2017

Chicago Tribune Some of the loudest opposition to a proposed tax on imports has come from the retail industry, which sent a handful of top CEOs to meet with President Donald Trump last week…

February 17th, 2017

Friday, February 17, 2017 New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has taken it on the chin recently, which should be expected considering that many of his views run contrary to the previous chairman’s. But…

February 17th, 2017

New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has taken it on the chin recently, which should be expected considering that many of his views run contrary to the previous chairman’s. But much of the criticism is…

February 10th, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017 John Mayo (CBPP Executive Director and Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy in the McDonough School of Business), Scott Wallsten (CBPP Senior Policy…

February 10th, 2017

John Mayo (CBPP Executive Director and Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy in the McDonough School of Business), Scott Wallsten (CBPP Senior Policy Scholar), and Stephen Weymouth…

February 9th, 2017

What Elon Musk shows us about the struggles of CEOs in Trump’s America, The Washington Post (February 9, 2017) Realistically, most chief executives cannot afford to rebuff the…

February 9th, 2017

Psychology Today Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley (Raffini Family Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business, and Faculty Director of the Georgetown University Women’s…

February 9th, 2017

Thursday, February 9, 2017 What Elon Musk shows us about the struggles of CEOs in Trump’s America, The Washington Post (February 9, 2017) Realistically, most chief executives…

February 9th, 2017

Thursday, February 9, 2017 Psychology Today Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley (Raffini Family Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business, and Faculty Director of the…

February 8th, 2017

Wireless Week In her speech to the ABA 2017 Consumer Protection Conference, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen summarized her view of the FTC’s mission: “We…

February 8th, 2017

The Washington Post Have you ever answered your phone only to hear an ominous message about the “IRS” demanding money, warnings from “Microsoft” that your computer needs immediate…

February 8th, 2017

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Wireless Week In her speech to the ABA 2017 Consumer Protection Conference, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen summarized her…

January 31st, 2017

Forbes Late last week, a diverse coalition of advertising trade groups, broadband providers and advocacy groups across the political spectrum moved to reverse the FCC’s last-minute effort…

January 31st, 2017

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Forbes Late last week, a diverse coalition of advertising trade groups, broadband providers and advocacy groups across the political spectrum moved to reverse…

January 30th, 2017

Fierce Telecom The overwhelming majority of Americans use the internet. They communicate with their friends, family and pets over the internet. The internet helps Americans find jobs and then…

January 30th, 2017

Monday, January 30, 2017 Fierce Telecom The overwhelming majority of Americans use the internet. They communicate with their friends, family and pets over the internet. The internet helps…

January 24th, 2017

Forbes The net neutrality misinformation bandwagon has opened an ugly new front. As fellow Forbes contributor Harold Furchtgott-Roth reported, President Trump has named Ajit Pai, one of the…

January 23rd, 2017

Center Executive Director John W. Mayo today released an economic policy paper, “Competition in Telecommunications: Global Lessons for Policy Development in Mexico,” co-authored with Elisa V.…

January 23rd, 2017

Monday, January 23, 2017 Center Executive Director John W. Mayo today released an economic policy paper, “Competition in Telecommunications: Global Lessons for Policy Development in Mexico,”…

January 18th, 2017

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy senior policy scholar and McDonough School of Business professor Catherine Tinsley attended the 47th Annual World…

January 17th, 2017

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Wireless Week Chairman Wheeler of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) directed the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) to issue a report on…

January 9th, 2017

Monday, January 9, 2017 The Hill Last summer, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) criticized outgoing FCC Chair Tom Wheeler for a lack of transparency about Commission…

January 5th, 2017

Thursday, January 5, 2017 As the inauguration of President-Elect Trump approaches, Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Bob Vastine has been asked to comment in a collection of pieces…

January 5th, 2017

traveling with train Thursday, January 5, 2017 THE ECONOMICS AND REGULATION OF THE FREIGHT RAIL INDUSTRYThird Annual Research ColloquiumCall for Papers The Georgetown Center for Business…

December 21st, 2016

On December 21, Center for Business and Public Policy Academic Director Jeff Macher, along with eleven other signatories, submitted an amicus brief to the United States Court of…

December 13th, 2016

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Wireless Week There are two goals that have bipartisan support in Washington: increased broadband infrastructure investment and greater broadband adoption.…

December 6th, 2016

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 Harvard Business Review Self-driving, autonomous vehicles — a topic of speculation, if not science fiction, just five years ago — are suddenly going…

October 14th, 2016

The Washington PostThough the United States has made profound progress in making Internet access universally available, a new digital divide has emerged that defies conventional solutions. Since…

October 14th, 2016

Harvard Business ReviewThere’s an urgent need to invest in America’s crumbling infrastructure. Even our politicians agree on that. As anyone who has driven a car, ridden a train, turned on…

October 4th, 2016

Visiting Senior Policy Scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs today released a paper, “Business data services: The potential harm to competitive facilities deployment.” Kovacs finds that FCC- mandated price…

September 11th, 2016

Senior Policy Scholar Robert Hahn today released a co-authored paper, “Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber.” The authors rely on Uber’s “surge” pricing…

September 9th, 2016

Senior Policy Scholar J. Bradford Jensen and Faculty Affiliates Dennis Quinn and Stephen Weymouth recently issued a paper, “Winners and Losers in International Trade: Effects on U.S.…

September 1st, 2016

Senior Policy Scholar Scott Wallsten was named President of the Technology Policy Institute, effective September 1, 2016. Scott formerly served as the Institute’s Vice President for Research and…

July 14th, 2016

Why do our cultural images lag? And what effect might this have on our girls? They return from their games sweaty, proud, and fueled with strength only to be bombarded with images contradicting…

July 7th, 2016

Open Internet advocates celebrated long and loud in June when a federal court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s “net neutrality” rules that prohibit broadband-access providers…

July 1st, 2016

traveling with train On July 1, 2016, Professor John Mayo chaired a session on railroad economics for the Transportation and Public Utilities Group at the 91st Annual Conference of the Western…

June 27th, 2016

“The Impact of Behavioral Science Experiments on Energy Policy” by CBPP Senior Policy Scholar Robert Hahn and co-author Robert Metcalfe provides a survey and synthesis of behavioral…

June 21st, 2016

Variety John Mayo was quoted in a Variety article published on June 17, 2016, “Net Neutrality: What’s Next for FCC’s Open Internet…

June 16th, 2016

John Mayo, professor of economics, business, and public policy in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and executive director of the Georgetown Center for Business and Public…

June 16th, 2016

FierceTelecom Senior Policy Scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs responds to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upholding the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order…

June 15th, 2016

The Huffington Post Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley, with CBPP Managing Director Marcia Mintz, published a Huffington Post blog on the potential for paid paternal leave to help…

June 15th, 2016

The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 largely but not completely deregulated the U.S. freight rail industry. More than thirty years of hindsight affords a rich opportunity for fresh economic analysis of…

May 11th, 2016

Amanda Delp and John Mayo chronicle the evolution of the concept of “competition” in economics and also examine how competition has been defined in the telecommunications arena. Their…

May 4th, 2016

The Huffington PostSenior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley published a Huffington Post blog on the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriett Tubman on…

May 2nd, 2016

The Power Shift Forum for Women in the World Economy is an annual symposium on women as economic actors in the global marketplace led by the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.…

April 16th, 2016

Date: April 16, 2016 Center Scholar Catherine Tinsley (professor of management and faculty director of the Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute) was joined by the…

April 14th, 2016

“Unlocking Pandora’s Set-Top Box:  The FCC Flirts with Disaster, Again,” by CBPP Project Director and Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Larry Downes, provides background,…

April 12th, 2016

Center Scholar Robin Dillon-Merrill (professor of operations and information management) has been named a 2016 Distinguished Georgetown Investigator by the Office of the Provost. The…

April 11th, 2016

If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu Discussion and Q+A on the pros and cons of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with a diverse panel of experts  When: April 19,…

April 11th, 2016

Newspapers and computer keyboard InsideTrade.comInside The U.S.’s Trade, World Trade Online published an article about the center’s latest Georgetown on the Hill trade event, “The Trans-Pacific…

March 28th, 2016

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) has released a White Paper titled “A Lifeline to High-Speed Internet Access: An Economic Analysis of Administration Costs…

March 28th, 2016

Forbes Tech Downes discusses the recent revelation that Netflix has “secretly throttl[ed] traffic for its customers on Verizon and AT&T’s mobile networks, and has been doing so for the…

March 22nd, 2016

Center leaders John Mayo and Jeff Macher are heading to Barcelona, April 22-23, for the US-EU Dialogue, Business and Public Policy Forum. This two-day workshop is a joint effort of academics…

March 22nd, 2016

The MBA Certificate Program in Nonmarket Strategy, which enrolled 43 first-year MBA students in January, held the first class session of “The Nonmarket Environment in DC” on February…

March 20th, 2016

Data collection and comparative analysis provide the bedrock for informed decision making. In this vein, “Business Broadband: Assessing the case for Reregulation” written by Visiting…

March 16th, 2016

Tinsley’s timely research on “Gender Diversity on U.S. Corporate Boards: Are We Running in Place?”, forthcoming in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, has attracted the attention of the…

March 16th, 2016

Forbes Tech Larry Downes looks at the eight major initiatives Chairman Wheeler has undertaken in advance of his increasingly direct agenda to fundamentally change the nature of Internet…

March 15th, 2016

In mid March, CBPP hosted a group of graduate students from the University of Basel’s Zaeslin Program for Law and Economics. While here, the students attended lectures, presented their papers,…

March 9th, 2016

On March 9th senior policy scholar Brad Jensen participated in the Washington International Trade Association’s “TTP Series: Services” event. Jensen was on a panel with Christine Bliss,…

March 8th, 2016

On March 8, 2016 Professor John Mayo spoke to the The World Bank’s Transportation and ICT Forum. His talk was part of an invited panel discussion on “Rail Regulation for Improved…

March 7th, 2016

In this article, Downes begins by discussing the advantages of start-ups: “Start-ups, unencumbered by the costs of amortizing investments in older technologies, physical supply chains, and…

March 2nd, 2016

Anna Maria Kovacs was among the panelists at a Digital Policy Institute webinar “Special Access: What’s Best for Business and the Public.” Other panelists included Evan Leo, partner at…

March 1st, 2016

Forbes Tech Larry Downes finds the latest FCC decision to create “new, mandatory technical standard[s] that will open up rapidly-disappearing set-top boxes to even more third party providers”…

March 1st, 2016

A capacity crowd filled a House Ways and Means Committee room in the Rayburn House Office building on March 30 at noon for discussion and Q+A on the pros and cons of the Trans-Pacific…

February 11th, 2016

A common consumer complaint is that cable bills are hard to decipher. It turns out that even Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is flummoxed by all those line items, at…

February 11th, 2016

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted an informal discussion looking back and looking forward. …

February 10th, 2016

The Harvard Business Review Larry Downes examines the newly agreed upon “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield,” arguing it is “unclear, however, if … [it] … will pass muster with EU authorities,”…

January 30th, 2016

Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy senior policy scholar and McDonough School of Business professor Catherine Tinsley attended the 46th Annual World Economic Forum meeting in…

January 25th, 2016

Forbes Larry Downes examines the California Public Utility Commission’s decision to investigate how competitive the analog phone line market is, arguing the massive data collection involved…

January 21st, 2016

The Hill Senior Policy Scholar Scott Wallsten argues “some groups contend that programs like Facebook’s Free Basics violate net neutrality by treating content differently based on whether the…

January 20th, 2016

Visiting senior policy scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs presented research at the Emerging Issues Policy Forum (EIPF): Digital Pathway Summit on January 14th. Kovac’s presentation, based…

January 14th, 2016

Senior industry and innovation fellow J. Robert Vastine testified today before the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)…

January 8th, 2016

January 8, 2016- Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy executive director John Mayo presented “”The Evolution of ‘Competition’: Lessons for 21st Century Telecommunications…

January 5th, 2016

Washington Post Center for Business and Public Policy Senior Policy Scholar Scott Wallsten’s research, “The Competitive Effects of the Sharing Economy: How is Uber Changing Taxis?” was…

January 4th, 2016

Center for Business and Public Policy Research Assistant Professor Olga Ukhaneva presented her dissertation research, Universal Service in a Wireless World, at the American…

December 15th, 2015

Huffington Post Senior Policy Scholar Catherine Tinsley published a Huffington Post blog, “Stop Perpetuating Gender Types with Children’s Christmas Toys.” READ…

December 14th, 2015

The Losing Case for Special Access Regulation Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Larry Downes contrasts the lethargic pace of the evolution of regulatory oversight of wholesale enterprise…

December 9th, 2015

McDonough School of Business News Jeff Macher, academic director of the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, moderated a conversation with Marriott International President and…

November 20th, 2015

The European Business Review Larry Downes in the European Business Review: “Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing…

November 18th, 2015

The Washington Post Downes argues “we need the pragmatic reforms called for by the Digital Due Process group to correct problems in the Patriot Act and other overreactions to recent events.…

November 17th, 2015

The Hill READ…

November 12th, 2015

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is launching an MBA Certificate in Nonmarket Strategy, open to both full-time and evening MBA students. This certificate program…

November 10th, 2015

Close-up of opened hardcover book with pages on light blue background. Shallow depth of focus. November 10, 2015 –  The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to…

October 19th, 2015

The Center’s event, “The Innovation and Engineering Dynamics of the Digital Economy: Economic Transformation and Expansion Enabled by 5G” was featured in two subscription-only news services on…

October 19th, 2015

Harvard Business Review Larry Downes latest, “How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide,” was published in the Harvard Business Review on Oct. 19. The piece examines the current regulatory…

October 19th, 2015

Forbes: Tech CBPP Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Larry Downes’ latest, “On Enterprise Broadband, The FCC Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone,” was featured in Forbes this morning. Downes…

October 14th, 2015

October 14, 2015 – Today the Center is hosting “The Innovation and Engineering Dynamics of the Digital Economy: Economic Transformation and Expansion Enabled by 5G, A Technology and Policy…

October 14th, 2015

Full policy event summary, including program information and participant biographies. On Oct. 14, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy’s Project on the Evolution of…

October 5th, 2015

The Washington Post Downes: “Ranked from lowest to highest, here are the seven disruptive innovations most threatened by premature and overzealous exposure to old and often-broken legal…

October 4th, 2015

On Tuesday, October 13, the Georgetown Center will co-sponsor the Mortara Center for International Studies presentation, “In the News: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal, a conversation…

October 2nd, 2015

On October 1, at the Rayburn House Office Building, the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy presented “Progress this Week on the Trans-Pacific Partnership?” continuing the…

October 2nd, 2015

The Hill John Mayo and Larry Downes were featured in The Hill discussing the FCC’s recent open Internet order. In “Obama administration embraces cost-benefit analysis: Why can’t the…

October 1st, 2015

October 1, 2015 – The Georgetown Center is hosting “Progress this Week on the Trans-PacificPartnership?” a Georgetown on the Hill Event. The event, which runs from noon to 1:30 PM will…

September 29th, 2015

The Center for Business and Public Policy has announced that Jeff Prince will be a visiting senior policy scholar in the Fall of 2015. He will be in residence at the McDonough School of Business…

September 29th, 2015

Center Academic Director Jeffrey Macher will be attending the Strategic Management Society annual meetings in Denver on Sunday, October 4, 2015. While there he will be a panelist discussing…

September 29th, 2015

On September 28, 2015 at the FCC Headquarters CBPP scholars Carol Corrado and Olga Ukhaneva presented their work on hedonic analysis of fixed broadband prices within the OECD-FCC International…

September 25th, 2015

Many have feared that unlicensed spectrum would suffer from a “tragedy of the commons,” in which the spectrum becomes congested as more users dive in without regard to their effects on other…

September 18th, 2015

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy’s Project on the Evolution of Regulation and Innovation hosted a teleconference September 18th at 9:00 am ET to discuss the Center’s…

September 18th, 2015

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas In the latest issues of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Larry Downes discusses the “growing divide between disruptive innovation and technology policy.”…

September 17th, 2015

On 9/18 the Center will host a teleconference, “Can the U.S. Afford Title II? Debating Costs versus Benefits.” Please join us from 9:00 – 10:00 AM, dial in…

September 17th, 2015

The Center issued a new Economic Policy Vignette, Results-Based Regulation: 20th-Century Lessons and 21st-Century Opportunities. This EPV provides a new lens and fresh perspective…

September 9th, 2015

Larry Downes’ latest Forbes piece examines the legal actions now being taken against the so-called net neutrality rules put forth by the FCC last spring.  Downes focuses on the arguments…

September 1st, 2015

John Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva, and Scott Wallsten authored a CBPP Economic Policy Vignette, “Toward a More Efficient and Effective Lifeline Program.”  In June 2015, the…

August 27th, 2015

In his latest Washington Post Innovations piece, Larry Downes examines “a new generation of financial technology or ‘fintech’ companies [who are] once again breaking down the oversized…

August 24th, 2015

Please join the Wireless Technology Association and the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy for “The Innovation and Engineering Dynamics of the Digital Economy: Economic…

August 21st, 2015

August 20 – Larry Downes was interviewed by Andrew Keen of Tech Crunch about the 2016 presidential election. In “INNOVATE2016: Silicon Valley Is A Political Issue In The 2016 Election,”…

August 17th, 2015

August 17- In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on 8/16 “Obamanet Heads to Court,” L. Gordon Crovitz recognizes the analysis and explanation of how utility regulation suppresses…

August 17th, 2015

On August 13, Larry Downes’ Big Bang Disruption was named one of  “7 Must-Read Books for the Budding Entrepreneur.” Article author Matthew Toren describes Downes book as “… a…

August 7th, 2015

A group of prominent economists including several Center scholars have released an Economic Policy Vignette assessing the economic merits the Open Internet Order. They argue the Order…

August 6th, 2015

On Wednesday, August 5, Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute Executive Director and Center for Business and Public Policy Senior Scholar Catherine Tinsley, along with…

August 4th, 2015

Economist and attorney Robert Litan brings nearly four decades of relevant experience and publication in the worlds of law, economic research, government service, and…

July 22nd, 2015

The Washington Post July 22 – The Washington Post Innovations section has released Larry Downes’ latest piece, “Why Silicon Valley Giants are supporting Samsung in its patent fight with…

July 15th, 2015

The Washington Post July 15 – The Washington Post Innovations section has released Larry Downes’ latest piece, “China’s Stock Market is Falling but its Innovators are Still Rising.”…

July 14th, 2015

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to announce a new policy paper by Senior Policy Scholar Robert Shapiro and co-author Kevin A. Hassett, Regulation and…

July 13th, 2015

On July 10th, Post Doctoral Fellow Olga Ukhaneva‘s research was cited in a Wall Street Journal Review and Opinion piece entitled “Who Needs an ObamaPhone?” The Wall Street…

July 9th, 2015

During a taxi ride late one night a few years ago, a cabbie started berating me for asking him to drive the 25 minutes from downtown D.C. to my home in Maryland. At the time, I thought to…

July 6th, 2015

CNET July 6 – CNET has released Larry Downes’ “What would ‘real’ patent reform look like?” The piece examines both legal and congressional attempts at patent reform in recent…

July 2nd, 2015

Bloomberg BNA On June 2, 2015 J. Robert Vastine was quoted in a Rosella Brevetti Bloomberg BNA article entitled “Sen. Klobuchar Says U.S. Cuban Embargo Should Be Lifted as Travel…

June 30th, 2015

June 30 — The leaked draft European Union services offer in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations with the U.S. could pose a major complication, as…

June 29th, 2015

On June 23 Olga Ukhaneva and Carol Corrado presented their research on “Telecommunications Services Prices: A Hedonic Analysis for OECD Countries” at the 53rd Session of the Working Party on…

June 26th, 2015

Communications Daily Communications Daily, a subscription-only news service, has taken note of Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Ralph Everett‘s new Economic Policy Vignette, The…

June 26th, 2015

Center Scholars John Mayo and Jeffrey Macher will present papers on the economics of railroad regulation at the 90th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, to…

June 25th, 2015

Antonio Fatas was featured on a June 24 CNBC piece “Lack of trust is the issue in Greek talks: INSEAD.” He also released a blog post on the same topic: Greece: Negotiating without…

June 25th, 2015

On June 24 the Center hosted “Completing the IP Transition: Confronting Technical Challenges  and Maximizing Consumer Benefits.” The event featured a keynote address…

June 24th, 2015

Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow Ralph Everett presents the hope and policy implications of the explosion of digital technology in a new Economic Policy…

June 19th, 2015

On June 17 the Center hosted “The Tech Jobs Boom and Diversity: A Good News, Bad News Story.” Both Communications Daily and TR Daily covered various aspects of the discussion. FCC Seems…

June 9th, 2015

On May 27th, Center scholars Carol Corrado and Olga Ukhaneva shared a preview of their research, “Telecommunications Services Prices: A Hedonic Analysis for OECD Countries,” in which they…

June 8th, 2015

The Washington Post June 8, 2015 – The Washington Post Innovations section has released Larry Downes’ latest piece, Europe’s innovation deficit isn’t disappearing any time soon.…

June 3rd, 2015

On May 20 the Center hosted a symposium on energy market power and manipulation featuring luncheon remarks by Commissioner Sharon Y. Bowen of the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission…

June 2nd, 2015

Stock market background design On June 2 J. Robert Vastine presented testimony, “Trading with Cuba in a New Era,” in front of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). Vastine…

June 2nd, 2015

Forbes On June 1, 2015, Forbes released Larry Downes’ latest tech piece, “The FCC’s War On The Internet Targets Facebook.” Taking a wide-angle view, Downes examines the recent FCC…

May 27th, 2015

In an Economic Policy Vignette released by the Center today, Senior Policy Scholar Anna-Maria Kovacs advises that it is worth stepping back and considering the way investors look at…

May 21st, 2015

After a hailstorm of criticism over a training done in Austin, Texas in response to the shift in the demographics of the city council from majority male to female, Catherine Tinsley and…

May 13th, 2015

Center Executive Director John Mayo provided testimony for a hearing on the “The 35th Anniversary of the Staggers Rail Act: Railroad Deregulation Past, Present, and…

May 5th, 2015

Fortune As another part of its commitment to HeForShe, Tupperware Brands also is partnering with Georgetown University to conduct global research intended to establish the degree to which…

March 23rd, 2015

CBPP Senior Industry Fellow J. Robert Vastine along with his colleague and co-author Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director of the European Center for International Political Economy, are meeting in…

October 2nd, 2014

Federal Communications Commission On October 2, John Mayo was an invited participant in the FCC’s Open Internet Economics Roundtable, Economics of Broadband: Market Successes and Market…

October 2nd, 2014

On October 2, John Mayo was an invited participant in the FCC’s Open Internet Economics Roundtable, Economics of Broadband: Market Successes and Market Failures. Read…

March 1st, 2012

Bloomberg BNA’s Antitrust & Trade Regulation Resource Center Larry Downes, project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, said the argument that Time Warner…