Publications – Policy Papers

• Who Was Laid Off and Who Was Hired During the Pandemic: Job Losses and Job Gains, July 2022 Robert Shapiro and Isaac Yoder
• The Future of Antitrust: Ideology, Alternative Facts, and the Rule of Law April 2021 Mark Whitener
• The Evolution of Judicial Standards: Evidence from Litigated Merger Trials (Paper & Technical Appendix) April 2021 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo, David Sappington, Mark Whitener
• Protecting the Package Delivery Market and the Economy from Distortions Resulting from Fully Distributed Cost Pricing October, 2020 John C. Panzar
• The Welfare Effects of Vertical Mergers and Their Remedies July, 2020 John W. Mayo, Mark Whitener
• U.S. Broadband Networks Rise to the Challenge of Surging Traffic During the Pandemic June, 2020 Anna-Maria Kovacs
• Does Your State Have 14-days of Declining COVID-19 Cases? Finding Straightforward Answers to a Surprisingly Tricky Question May, 2020 Scott Ganz
• Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic May, 2020 Jesper Akesson, Sam Ashworth-Hayes, Robert Hahn, Robert Metcalfe, Itzhak Rasooly

• Mobility Zones May, 2020 Ferdinando Monte
• Income Progress by Most U.S. Households Slowed in 2017-2018 January, 2020 Robert J. Shapiro
• The Evolution of Merger Enforcement Intensity: What Do the Data Show? November, 2019 Jeffrey T. Macher John W. Mayo
• The Impact of Title II Regulation of ISPs on Investment by Edge Companies November, 2019 Anna-Maria Kovacs
• Changes in the Educational, Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Employment, January 2008 to August 2018, and the Debate over Diversity in the U.S. Economy January, 2019 Robert J. Shapiro
  
• Economic Foundations for 21st Century Freight Rail Rate Regulation November, 2018 John W. Mayo Robert D. Willig
• Competition in the U.S. Wireless Services Market August, 2018 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• The Politics of Widening Income Inequality In the United States, 1977 to 2014 October, 2017 Robert J. Shapiro
  
• The Effect of Title II Classification on Wireless Investment July, 2017 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Competition in Telecommunications: Global Lessons for Policy Development in Mexico January, 2017 John W. Mayo Elisa V. Mariscal, Andrea Renda
  
• The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets November, 2016 Robert Hahn Robert D. Metcalfe, David Novgorodsky, Michael K. Price
  
• Business Data Services: The potential harm to competitive facilities deployment October, 2016 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber September, 2016 Robert Hahn Peter Cohen, Jonathan Hall, Steven Levitt, Robert Metcalfe
  
• Winners and Losers in International Trade: The Effects on U.S. Presidential Voting June, 2016 J. Bradford Jensen, Dennis Quinn, Stephen Weymouth
  
• Unlocking Pandora’s Set-Top Box: The FCC Flirts with Disaster, Again April, 2016 Larry Downes
  
• Regulation in Financial Translation- Business Broadband: Assessing the Case for Reregulation March, 2016 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• A Lifeline to High-Speed Internet Access: An Economic Analysis of Administrative Costs and the Impact on ConsumersMarch, 2016 Olga Ukhaneva Coleman Bazelon, Nicol E. Turner-Lee, DeVan Hankerson
  
• Does the Internet Improve Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes? Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey (new window)March, 2016 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo, Olga Ukhaneva
  
• Formal Versus Informal Channels: How Firm Size Affects Corporate Political Activities February, 2016 Jeffrey T. Macher,John W. Mayo, Stephen Weymouth
  
• The Losing Case for Special Access Regulation December, 2015 Larry Downes
  
• Rebooting Lifeline for Broadband November, 2015 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Finding Cyber Terrorists: The Influence of Status on Inter-agency Counter Terrorism Taskforces July, 2015 Catherine H. Tinsley Corinne Bendersky
  
• Regulation and Investment: A Note on Policy Evaluation under Uncertainty, With an Application to FCC Title II
• Regulation of the Internet July, 2015 Robert J. Shapiro Kevin A. Hassett
• The Evolution of Innovation and the Evolution of Regulation: Emerging Tensions and Emerging Opportunities in Communications (new window) December, 2014 Larry Downes, John W. Mayo
  
• Who should bring home the bacon? How deterministic views of gender constrain spousal wage preferences November, 2014 Catherine H. Tinsley Taeya M. Howell, Emily T. Amanatullah
  
• Investment Implications of the FCC’s Open Internet Proceeding October, 2014 Anna-Maria Kovacs
  
• Revenue Adequacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly July, 2014 Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo Lee F. Pinkowitz
  
• Employing Auctions to Allocate Scarce Inputs February, 2014 John W. Mayo David E. M. Sappington
  
• Tax Shelters or Efficient Tax Planning? A Theory of Firm Perspective on the Economic Substance Doctrine? May, 2013 T. Christopher Borek Oliver Hart, Angelo Frattarelli
  
• The Evolution of Regulation: Twentieth Century Lessons and Twenty-First Century Opportunities April, 2013 John W. Mayo
  
• The Economic Implications of Restricting Spectrum Purchases in the Incentive Auctions April, 2013 Robert J. ShapiroDouglas Holtz-Eakin, Coleman Bazelon
  
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Offset Policies January, 2013 Robert Hahn Kenneth Richards
  
• Competing Environmental Labels December, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon Carolyn Fischer
  
• Corporate Environmental Strategies in Developing and Transition Economies December, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon Dietrich Earnhart, Madhu Khanna
  
• Cleaner Production in Small Firms taking part in Mexico’s Sustainable Supplier Program September, 2012 Thomas P. LyonBart van Hoof
  
• Beyond the Dichotomy of Symbolic versus Substantive Actions: Evidence from Corporate Environmental ManagementSeptember, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon Eun-Hee Kim
  
• How Do Investors Respond to Green Company Awards in China? September, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon Yao Lu, Xinzheng Shi, Qie Yin
  
• Self-Regulation, Negotiated Agreements and Social Welfare July, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon John W. Maxwell
  
• Tweetjacked: The Impact of Social Media on Corporate Greenwash June, 2012 Thomas P. Lyon A. Wren Montgomery
• Likeability v. Competence: The Impossible Choice Faced by Female Politicians, Attenuated by Lawyers October, 2010Catherine H. Tinsley Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Sandra Cheldelin, Emily T. Amanatullah
  
• A New Analysis of Broadband Adoption Rates by Majority Households June, 2010 Robert J. Shapiro Kevin A. Hassett
  
• Information Security Policy in the U.S. Retail Payment Industry June, 2010 Mark MacCarthy
  
• Intra-Firm Trade and Product Contractibility May, 2010 J. Bradford Jensen Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding, Peter K. Schott
  
• The Margins of US Trade May, 2010 J. Bradford Jensen Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding, Peter K. Schott
  
• Policy Volatility, Institutions and Economic Growth May, 2010 Antonio Fatás Ilian Mihov
  
• The Economics of Achieving Fiscal Sustainability April, 2010 Antonio Fatás
  
• Residential Broadband Competition March, 2010 Scott Wallsten , Colleen Mallahan
  
• The 4 I’s of Economic Growth November, 2009 Antonio Fatás Ilian Mihov
  
• Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing October, 2009 J. Bradford Jensen Robert C. Feenstra
  
• Sacred Cars? Cost-Effective Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources September, 2009 Catherine Wolfram Meredith Fowlie, Christopher R. Knittel
  
• Why the iPhone Won’t Last Forever and What the Government Should Do to Promote its Successor September, 2009 Robert Hahn Hal Singer
  
• Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation September, 2009 Thomas P. Lyon Haitao Yin
  
• Measuring the Impact of Trade in Services: Prospects and Challenges September, 2009 J. Bradford Jensen
  
• Towards Universal Broadband: Flexible Broadband Pricing and the Digital Divide August, 2009 Robert J. Shapiro , Kevin A. Hassett
  
• An Economic Perspective on a U.S. National Broadband Plan June, 2009 Robert Hahn, Scott Wallsten
  
• Enabling Wireless Communications: The Role of Secondary Spectrum Markets June, 2009 John W. Mayo, Scott Wallsten
  
• Leadership and lawyering lessons from the 2008 elections March, 2009 Catherine H. Tinsley Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Sandra Cheldelin, Emily T. Amanatullah
  
• Reverse Auctions and Universal Telecommunications Service: Lessons from Global Experience April, 2008 Scott Wallsten
• Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World – Introduction January, 2008 Jeffrey T. Macher David C. Mowery
  
• “Fear” and Offshoring: The Scope and Potential Impact of Imports and Exports of Services January, 2008 J. Bradford JensenLori G. Kletzer
  
• Coordinating on Lower Prices: Pharmaceutical Pricing Under Political Pressure June, 2006 Catherine Wolfram , Sara Fisher Ellison