Scott Wallsten

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Senior Policy Scholar 

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University

Research Interests

• Regulation
• Broadband Policy
• Economics of Digitization
• Antitrust

Biography

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 news magazines around the world. He holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University.

He is currently president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute (TPI) and a senior policy scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. He has been a lecturer in Stanford University’s public policy program, 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.

Selected Publications

• From a Silk Purse to a Sow’s Ear? Implementing the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment Act August 2022 John W. Mayo, Gregory L. Rosston, Scott J. Wallsten
• An Economic Perspective of Title II Regulation of the InternetJuly 2017
• An Economic Analysis of the FCC’s Set-Top Box NPRMApril 2016
• Toward a More Efficient and Effective Lifeline ProgramAugust 2015
• Protecting and Promoting the Open InternetDecember 2014
• Secondary Markets: The Quiet Economic Value CreatorDecember 2011
• The Role of Government in Promoting R&DSeptember 2011
• Secondary Spectrum Markets as Complements to Incentive AuctionsApril 2011
• Residential Broadband CompetitionMarch 2010
• An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband PlanJune 2009
• Enabling Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum MarketsJune 2009
• Using Procurement Auctions to Allocate Broadband Stimulus GrantsApril 2009
• Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus PlanMarch 2009
• The Competitive Implications of the DTV TransitionSeptember 2008
• Understanding International Broadband ComparisonsMay 2008
• Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global ExperienceApril 2008
• Managing the Network? Rethink Prices, not Net NeutralityNovember 2007