Publications – Economic Policy Vignettes

• A Continuing Path Toward Rail Industry Sustainability: A Look to the Future
  March 2024 Mark Burton
• Oh (No) Canada!
  December 2023 John W. Mayo, Jeffrey T. Macher
• Decoding AI
  December 2023 Caroline De Roover, Tim DeStefano, Andrea Morante, Jonathan Timmis
• What do the early data indicate about the Affordable Connectivity Program?
  November 2023 Tim DeStefano, John W. Mayo
• Rules to Prevent Digital Discrimination: The Economic Guideposts
  March 2023 John W. Mayo
• 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
• Babies, Bathwater and Pending Antitrust ‘Reform’: An Economic Perspective
  October, 2021 John W. Mayo, Scott Wallsten
• Understanding ‘Climate Change’ in U.S. Antitrust
  August, 2021 John W. Mayo, Mark Whitener
• Post-Pandemic, a Strong Expansion Needs Less Personal Saving or More Government Spending
  June, 2021 Robert J. Shapiro
• Does Google Search Increasingly Harm Consumers? The Evidence isn’t as Obvious as Portrayed
  November, 2020 John W. Mayo
• Pricing Package Delivery Services through Fully Distributed Cost… Say It Isn’t So!
  October, 2020 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
• Vertical Integration and the Evolution of Audiovisual Services: Economic Policy Implications for Brazil
  November, 2019 John W. Mayo
• Financing Medicare for All: A Bridge Too Far
  November, 2019 Robert J. Shapiro
• Universal Connectivity in the United States
  July, 2019 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva, Glenn Woroch
• Will Ideology Block Opportunity? Regulatory Reform in the Infrastructure Industries 
  November, 2017 John W. Mayo
  
• An Economic Perspective of Title II Regulation of the Internet 
  July, 2017 Robert Hahn, Robert Litan, Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo, Robert J. Shapiro, Scott Wallsten, Glenn Woroch Michelle Connolly, Ev Ehrlich, Gerald R. Faulhaber, Michael Mandel, James E. Prieger, Hal J. Singer, Lawrence J. White
  
• A Sanguine Assessment of North American Freight Railroads 
  October, 2016 Mark L. Burton
  
• The FCC’s BDS Proposal and the Dangers of Skewing Investment 
  October, 2016 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Regulation and Investment: Sk(r)ewing the Future for 21st Century Telecommunications? 
  June, 2016 John W. Mayo
  
• Defining “Competition” for the 21st Century Telecommunications Industry 
  April, 2016 John W. Mayo
  
• Three Things Economists Wish the FCC Knew about Broadband Markets 
  February, 2016 Mark Jamison
  
• Why the TPP? It’s Good for Our Economy and Our Role in Asia 
  February, 2016 J. Robert Vastine
  
• Results Based Regulation: 20th Century Lessons and 21st Century Opportunities 
  September, 2015 John W. Mayo
  
• Toward a More Efficient and Effective Lifeline Program 
  August, 2015 Olga Ukhaneva, John W. Mayo, Scott Wallsten
  
• Assessing the Economic Benefits and Costs of the FCC’s Imposition of Title II Regulation 
  August, 2015 Larry Downes,Robert Litan, Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo, Robert J. Shapiro, Glenn Woroch Ev Ehrlich, Gerald R. Faulhaber, Michael Mandel, Bruce Owen, James E. Prieger, Hal J. Singer, Lawrence J. White
  
• The Digital Economy and Closing the Opportunity Gap 
  June, 2015 Ralph B. Everett
  
• EPV: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Policy Prospects for Applications of Revenue Adequacy 
  May, 2015 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo Lee F. Pinkowitz
  
• Regulation in Financial Translation: How Investors View the Internet Ecosystem and the Open-Internet Order 
  May, 2015 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: An Accident Report 
  January, 2015 J. Bradford Jensen, J. Robert Vastine, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
  
• Regulatory Uncertainty: The FCC’s Open Internet Docket 
  January, 2015 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• The Economics and Law of Net Neutrality 
  June, 2014 John W. Mayo
  
• Will the Incentive Auction Increase Mobile-Broadband Competition in Rural America? 
  May, 2014 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Communications Policy: Reflections at an Inflection 
  February, 2014 John W. Mayo
  
• Spectrum Auctions and Economic Welfare: A Cautionary Tale for Policymakers 
  February, 2014 John W. Mayo , David E. M. Sappington
• Is the U.S. Government’s Internet Policy Broken?: A Review of Captive Audience by Susan Crawford 
  January, 2013 Robert Hahn , Hal Singer
  
• Rational Broadband Investment: Why the FCC’s New Task Force Is a Good Step Forward 
  December, 2012 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• A New Form of Services Trade Agreement Moving Ahead in Geneva: “The International Services Agreement” 
  November, 2012 J. Robert Vastine
  
• Is it Time to Unify Telecommunications Policy? 
  October, 2012 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
  
• Overlooked Opportunities for U.S. Exports of Business Services 
  September, 2012 J. Bradford Jensen
  
• Internet Policy: First Do No Harm 
  August, 2012 Robert Hahn , Peter Passell
  
• Wireless Competition: An Update 
  May, 2012 Robert Hahn , Hal Singer
  
• The Importance of Current Data in the FCC’s Special Access Proceeding May, 2012 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• The Wireless Revolution: Are the Elderly Keeping Up? May, 2012 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
  
• Neutral Spectrum Auctions: Maximizing Proceeds and Consumer Benefit February, 2012 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Secondary Markets: The Quiet Economic Value Creator December, 2011 John W. Mayo, Scott Wallsten
  
• Respecting Consumers: Strategic Regulation in a World Full of Choices November, 2011 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• The (Not-so) Dismal Science and the Super Committee: The Spectrum Option November, 2011 John W. Mayo
  
• Achieving Rural Universal Service in a Broadband Era: Emergent Evidence from the Evolution of Telephone Demand
  October, 2011 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
  
• Regulation in Financial Translation: Spectrum valuation – an investment approach 
  July, 2011 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Regulation in Financial Translation: The FCC’s Fifteenth Mobile Wireless Competition Report: Innovation, investment, growth and Competition 
  July, 2011 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Policy and investment: perspectives on two FCC broadband reports 
  June, 2011 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• The “Wireless Tax Premium” Harms American Consumers and Squanders the Potential of the Mobile Economy 
  June, 2011Glenn Woroch
  
• Secondary Spectrum Markets as Complements to Incentive Auctions 
  April, 2011 John W. Mayo, Scott Wallsten
  
• Viewpoint: Mobile Payments Call for Clear Consumer Protections 
  August, 2010 Mark MacCarthy , Gail Hillebrand
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Needs a Privacy Office 
  August, 2010 Mark MacCarthy , Robert Gellman
  
• Benchmarking Policy in a Global Telecommunications Industry: The Case of Net Neutrality 
  April, 2010 John W. Mayo, Robert J. Shapiro, Glenn Woroch , Bruce Owen, Marius Schwartz, Lawrence J. White
  
• Regulating Early Termination Fees: When “Pro-Consumer” Legislation Isn’t 
  January, 2010 John W. Mayo
  
• Where is Internet Policy Really Headed 
  November, 2009 Robert Hahn
  
• Globalization and Business Services: A Growth Opportunity? 
  November, 2009 J. Bradford Jensen
  
• Policymaking in the Wireless Telephone Industry: Let’s Avoid the Rorschach Approach 
  August, 2009 John W. Mayo
  
• The Need for Constraint on Fiscal Policy 
  May, 2009 Antonio Fatás
  
• Regulation of Pollution Sources 
  April, 2009 Catherine Wolfram , Meredith Fowlie, Christopher Knittle
  
• Measuring the Effectiveness of the Broadband Stimulus Plan 
  March, 2009 Scott Wallsten
  
• Universal Service: Can We Do More With Less? 
  February, 2009 John W. Mayo
  
• The Competitive Implications of the DTV Transition 
  September, 2008 Scott Wallsten
  
• It’s No Time to Regulate Wireless Telephony 
  February, 2008 John W. Mayo
  
• Managing the Network? Rethink Prices, not Net Neutrality 
  November, 2007 Scott Wallsten
  
• Ready, Fire, Aim: Telecommunications Policy in the Primary Season 
  November, 2007 John W. Mayo
  
• Google: Trust Yet Verify, Proposed merger with DoubleClick deserves antitrust scrutiny 
  September, 2007 John W. Mayo
  
• Net Neutrality: The Prequel 
  March, 2007 John W. Mayo
  
• The Economic Facts and FAQs of National Video Franchising: Reflections on the House of Representatives Debate 
  June, 2006 John W. Mayo