Publications – Books, Articles, and Other Published Work

The Georgetown Center for Business an Public Policy features and contributes to the policy literature through the center’s own series of concise Economic Policy Vignettes, policy papers authored by center scholars and fellows, peer-reviewed publications authored by Georgetown Faculty, and compilations of relevant research literature by policy area.

• “New Insights into the Evolution of Judicial Standards in U.S. Merger Cases,” the Network Law Review, October 2024, John W. Mayo
• “The Sustainability Paradox: A Competitive Case for Sustainability Agreements” The George Washington Law Review, February 2024, Hannah Burdette
• “Demand in a Portfolio-Choice Environment: The Evolution of Telecommunications” (with Jeffrey Macher, John Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva), Review of Network Economics, forthcoming.
• “How Will AI Impact the Future of Work?” From banking to education to art, industry experts are grappling with how artificial intelligence will impact the future of work.” U.S. News and World Report, September 2023, Catherine Tinsley, Jennifer Logg , Juan Noguera , Tomas Gorny
• Intangible Capital and Modern Economies, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 36, No. 3, Summer 2022 (pp. 3-28)
• “Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap, COVID-19 and Telehealth, Spectrum Auctions, Communications Marketplace Report, and Economic Research” (with Allison Baker, Patrick Brogan, Patrick DeGraba, Judith Dempsey, Michael Janson, Paul LaFontaine, Cher Li, Kim Makuch, Catherine Matraves, Martha Stancill, Donald Stockdale), Review of Industrial Organization, December 2021. 
• “Spectrum Concentration and Performance of the U.S. Wireless Industry,” Review of Industrial Organization, February 2020. 
• The Increasing Deflationary Influence of Consumer Digital Access Services, Economic Letters Vol. 196, 2020, 109447
• Innovation α: What Do IP-Intensive Stock Price Indexes Tell Us about Innovation? May, 2020 Carol Corrado, David Martin, Qianfan Wu
• U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy: Are We on the Right Track? April, 2019 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
• Pivot to the Future April, 2019 Larry Downes Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes
• Will Ideology Block Opportunity? Regulatory Reform in the Infrastructure Industries May, 2018 John W. Mayo
• From Universal Service to Universal Connectivity  July, 2017 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva, Glenn Woroch
• From Universal Service to Universal Connectivity: Online Appendix July, 2017
• International Telecommunications Demand March, 2017 John W. Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva
• The Evolution of “Competition”: Lessons for 21st Century Telecommunications Policy December, 2016 Amanda B. Delp, John W. Mayo
• Gender Diversity on U.S. Corporate Boards: Are We Running in Place? March, 2016 Catherine H. Tinsley James Wade, Brian G.M. Main, Charles A. O’Reilly
• When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs?  January, 2016 John W. Mayo David E.M. Sappington
• This Time is Different (?): Lessons from Unbundled Access in Telecommunications Applied to Railroad Regulation August, 2015 Jeffrey T. Macher, T. Randolph Beard, Christopher Vickers
• Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Oversight of Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era June, 2015 John W. Mayo, David E. M. Sappington
• Improving Recognition of Near-Miss Events Through Organizational Repair Of The Outcome Bias January, 2015 Robin L. Dillon-Merrill, Catherine H. Tinsley, Peter M. Madsen, Edward W. Rogers
  
• Democracy Journal Fall 2014: Regulating the Digital Economy, Beyond Ideology: A Results-Based Approach October, 2014John W. Mayo
  
• Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation  January, 2014 Larry Downes , Paul Nunes
  
• Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from Newsweek‘s Green Companies Rankings August, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon , Jay P. Shimshack
  
• Technological Development at the Boundaries of the Firm: A Knowledge -Based Examination in Drug Development August, 2012 Jeffrey T. Macher Christopher Boerner
• The Economic Origins of Democracy November, 2011 Dennis Quinn , John R. Freeman
• Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts and Offshoring  September, 2011 J. Bradford Jensen
• The Evolution of Regulation: 20th Century Lessons and 21st Century Opportunities June, 2011 John W. Mayo
• Regulator Heterogeneity and Endogenous Efforts to Close the Information Asymmetry Gap February, 2011 Jeffrey T. Macher,John W. Mayo Jackson Nickerson
  
• Environmental Offset Programs: Survey and Synthesis December, 2010 Robert Hahn Kenneth R. Richards
  
• Making a Market out of a Mole Hill? Geographic Market Definition in Aspen Skiing September, 2010 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
  
• What Payment Intermediaries Are Doing About Online Liability and Why It Matters July, 2010 Mark MacCarthy
  
• Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trad e May, 2010 J. Bradford Jensen , Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott
  
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies Toward Business March, 2010 Thomas P. Lyon
  
• Understanding International Broadband Comparisons May, 2008 Scott Wallsten
• Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World May, 2008 Jeffrey T. Macher David C. Mowery
• Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don’t Households Pick up the Lifeline? November, 2007 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo , Mark L. Burton