Saturday, October 3, 1998
2:00pm-7:00pm
Registration
Tutorial I:
2:15pm-4:00pm
Title: INTERNET TELEPHONY
Speakers:
Lee McKnight, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University
William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ITC & Columbia Univ.
Tutorial II:
4:15pm-6:00pm
Title: E-COMMERCE
Speaker:
Marvin Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University
5:30pm-6:30pm
Reception/Cash Bar . Hosted by the Sponsors of TPRC
6:30pm-7:30pm
Dinner
7:30pm-9:00pm
Opening Session
Welcoming Remarks by: Jorge R. Schement, Program Committee Chair
The Pennsylvania State University. 26th Annual Organizing Committee Chair
Special Recognition of Colin Blackman
Retiring Editor of Telecommunications Policy
Presentors:
Chris Sterling, George Washington University
Walter Baer, RAND
Robert Frieden, Penn State University
Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco
Eli Noam, Columbia University
William Drake, Georgetown University
Plenary Session :
Net Heads vs. Bell Heads: Which Paradigm for Telecommunications Will Prevail?
Chair:
Peter Harter, Netscape Communications Corp.
Panelists:
David Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Labs-Research
Stu Personick, Drexel University
Sunday, October 4, 1998
7:30am-8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am-10:00am
Sessions:
CONTENT CONTROLS
Chair: Michael Froomkin, University of Miami
Discussant: Mark Lemley, University of California
Papers:
First Amendment's Limitations on the Use of Internet Filtering in Public Schools & Libraries. [Abstract][Paper PDF]
Mark Nadel, Federal Communications Commission
Internet Control in Asia: Implications of New Media & Supranational Policy-Making.
Nandini Sen, Temple University [Abstract]
The Architectures of Mandated Access Controls. [Abstract][Paper]
Paul Resnick, The University of Michigan and Larry Lessig, Harvard Law School
MASS MEDIA, OLD AND NEW
Chair: Benjamin Compaine, Harvard University
Papers:
Do People Not Subscribe to Cable Television Because They Can Not Afford the Service? A Review of the Evidence. [Paper PDF]
Robert Kieschnick and Bruce McCullough, Federal Communications Commission
The Economics of American Movie Exports: An Empirical Analysis.
Krishna Jayakar and David Waterman, Indiana University
Uses & Gratification’s of the World-Wide Web in an Educational Context.
Samuel Ebersole, University of Southern Colorado
Are American Media Becoming More Concentrated? [Paper]
Eli Noam, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
SECURITY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS: CAN POLICY PROMOTE PROGRESS?
Chair: Marjory Blumenthal, National Research Council And Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Discussant: Charles Holland, Defense Research Engineering
Papers:
The Politics and Policies of Enhancing Trustworthiness. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Marjory Blumenthal, National Research Council
and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Critical Infrastructures You Can Trust: Where Telecommunications Fits. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Fred Schneider, Cornell University
Steven Bellovin, AT&T Labs Research
Alan Inouye, National Research Council (author not presenting)
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Chair: David Tennenhouse, DARPA/ITO
Papers:
Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets.
Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and Tom Downes, Tufts University [Abstract][Paper PDF]
The Internet and Other Networks: Utilization Rates and Their Implications.[Abstract][Paper PDF]
Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Labs-Research
Implications of Local Loop Technology for Future Industry Structure.[Abstract][Paper PDF]
David Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deregulation and Reform in the Israeli Telecommunications Sector: Transition to a Competitive Industry. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University
10:00am-10:30am
Break
10:30am-12:00pm
Sessions:
PRIVACY
Chair: Jessica Litman, Wayne State University
Discussant: Michael Nelson, IBM
Papers:
Tele-Privacy: The European Union Directive on Data Protection in Telecommunications.
Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Kennedy School of Govt./Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Financial Privacy: Implications of Money Laundering Law for Encryption and CALEA.
Peter Swire, Ohio State University
The Architecture of Identity.
Phil Agre, University of California, Los Angeles
CONVERGENCE: REGULATORY IMPLICATIONS
Chair: Luigi Prosperetti, University of Milan-Italy
Discussant: Luigi Prosperetti, University of Milan-Italy
Papers:
Telecommunications Regulations in the United States and Europe: The Case for Centralized Authority.
William Lehr, Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and
Thomas Kiessling, Harvard University
Convergence, Competition and Regulation.
Christopher Marsden, University of Warwick and Campbell Cowie, LECG Ltd.
Asymmetric Regulation of Converging Markets: Problems, Pitfalls and Potential.
Leonard Waverman, London Business School & Law & Economics Consulting Group;
Marc Shankerman, London Business School; and Lorenzo Pupillo, Telecom Italia
UNBUNDLED ACCESS
Chair: Daniel Kelley, HAI Consulting, Inc.
Papers:
So Near and Yet So Far: A Comparative Analysis of Network Unbundling and Local Competition in Canada and the U.S.A.
Hudson Janisch, University of Toronto
Regulating Prices to Equal Forward Looking Costs: Cost-Based Prices or Price-Based Costs?
Michael Salinger, Boston University
Vertical Disintegration: Optimal Pricing for Wholesale Telecommunications Services
Douglas Meredith, University of Maryland, PhD Student & John Staurulakis, Inc.
The Economics of BOC Long Distance Entry While charging Above Costs Access Rates
Gary Biglaiser, Univ. of North Carolina; Patrick DeGraba, Federal Communications Commission;
Michael Kende, Federal Communications Commission
THE TRANSITION TO DIGITAL TV
Chair: Jonathan Levy, Federal Communications Commission
Papers:
Selling Digital Television to the Consumer – Lessons from the Computer Trenches: It’s got to be More Than Pretty Pictures
James Burger, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
Digital Television Developments in the Cable Industry [Abstract][Paper PDF]
David Reed and Jerry Bennington, CableLabs
Surviving the Digital Chasm – The Broadcasters’ Business Challenge[Abstract][Paper]
Nat Ostroff, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
DTV: Things to Come
Branko Gerovac, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00pm-1:30pm
Lunch
Lunch Plenary Session:
THE PROPER ROLE OF ANTITRUST IN 21ST CENTURY TELECOM REGULATION
Chair: Thomas Krattenmaker, Federal Communication Commission
Panelists:
Mike Riordan, Boston University
Larry Lessig , Harvard Law School
Howard Shelanski, Council of Economic Advisors
1:45pm-3:15pm
Sessions:
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
Chair: Robert Pepper, Federal Communications Commission
Discussant: Robert Pepper, Federal Communications Commission
Papers:
Promoting Telephone Competition: A Simpler Way?
Tim Brennan, University of Maryland
The Internet and "Telecommunications Services", Access Charges, Universal Service Mechanisms and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System.
Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University
Dynamics of Price Regulation: I. Basic Model.
Michael Riordan, Boston University and Gary Biglaiser, University of North Carolina
When Agencies are Captured by Experts: The Irony of Telecommunications Reform
Linda Garcia, Foundation for Rural Service
REGULATORY EXPERIENCE - DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
Chair: Martin Cave, Brunel University
Discussant: Martin Cave, Brunel University
Papers:
An Econometric Analysis of Institutional Factors in Telecommunication Reform.
Gerald Brock and Yun-tsai Chou, The George Washington University
The New Regulatory Regime and Market Entry in Germany.
Ernst-Olav Ruhle and Karl-Heinz Neumann, RWE Telliance AG [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Transforming the Management of Telcos in Australia and New Zealand.
Mark Shadur and Rene Kienzle, Queensland University of Technology
IP TELEPHONY ENGINEERING COST MODELS
Chair: David Reed, CableLabs
Discussant: David Reed, CableLabs
Papers:
Internet Telephony or Circuit Switched Telephony: Which is Cheaper?[Paper PDF]
MartinWeiss and Junseok Hwang, University of Pittsburgh
Cost-Engineering Model of IP Telephony on Corporate Intranet.
Wei Deng, Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Student
IP-Based Residential Telephone Network: Economic and Public Policy Analysis.
Kanchana Wanichkorn, Daniel Fryxell and Marvin Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Chair: Nicholas Economides, New York University
Papers:
The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms: Fostering Cooperation on the Internet. [Abstract][Paper]
Paul Resnick , Univ. of Michigan and Eric Friedman, Rutgers University
Public vs. Private Networks: The Effect on Market Structures in Electronic Commerce.
Alice Chan, Cornell Univ.; Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University;
and Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon University
Bundling and Competition on the Internet. [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Yannis Bakos, New York University and Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University
3:15pm-3:45pm
Break
3:45pm-5:15pm
Sessions:
STATES
Chair: Richard Taylor, Penn State University
Papers:
Interconnection Pricing and Competition in the Local Telephone and Internet Industries.
Carolyn Gideon, Harvard University
Determining the Rules of the Game: Regulatory Regime Adoption in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry.
James Dewey, University of Florida
Spectrum Auctions, the Telecommunication Act of 1996 and Local Governments' "Wireless Telecommunication Policies". [Abstract]
Seongcheol Kim and Thomas Muth, Michigan State University
ADSL Deployment: Law, Economics and Strategy
David Pearah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
INTERNET AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND NAMES
Chair: Sharon Eisner Gillett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Papers:
Funding Models for AIN-Based Local Number
Portability. [Paper PDF]
Martin Weiss and Douglas Sicker, University of Pittsburgh
Economic Analysis of Address Portability.
Bridger Mitchell and Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Charles River Associates
Trademarks and Domain Names: Property Rights and Institutional Evolution in Cyberspace. [Abstract]
Milton Mueller, Syracuse University
David Farber, University of Pennsylvania
SOFTWARE COMPETITION
Chair: Glenn Woroch, University of California, Berkeley
Papers:
Durable Goods Monopoly with Network Externalities with Application to the PC Operating Systems Market
Nicholas Economides, New York University
Strategic Coordination Between Hardware and Software Producers in the Presence of Network Externalities.
Sangin Park, SUNY at Stony Brook
Effecting a Price Squeeze Through Bundled Pricing. [Abstract PDF]
Steve Wildman, Northwestern University and Debra Aron, LECG
Influencing Software Use. [Abstract][Paper PDF]
Lorrie Faith Cranor and Rebecca Wright, AT&T Labs-Research
SOCIAL ISSUES IN UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Chair: Robert Frieden, Pennsylvania State University
Papers:
Universalizing Universal Service Obligation: A European Perspective.[Abstract]
Barbara Bardzki and John Taylor, Glasgow Caledonian University
From Welfare to Innovation: Toward a New Rationale for Universal Service. [Paper PDF]
Francois Bar, Stanford University and Annemarie Munk Riis, Copenhagen Business School
The Persistent Gap in Telecommunications: Toward Hypotheses and Answers.
Jorge Reina Schement and Scott Forbes, Penn State University
Without Public Peer: The Potential Regulatory and Universal Service Consequences of Internet Balkanization
Robert Frieden, Pennsylvania State University
6:00pm
Busses leave for Old Town Alexandria
Dinner at The Fish Market
Monday, October 5, 1998
7:00am-8:00am
Breakfast
8:00am-9:30am
Sessions:
TELECOMS REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Chair: Patricia Aufderheide, American University
Papers:
Advanced IT Markets in Backward Countries: Where Do They Come From?
Ernest Wilson, University of Maryland
Policy Design for Telecom Infrastructure Growth: Competition as a Tool for Network Expansion.
Anupama Dokeniya, Delft Univ. of Technology and William Melody, Technical Univ. of Denmark
"Peripheral Realism" Communications Policy
in Brazil
Venicio de Lima, Universidade de Brasilia
GII Initiatives: A Critical Assessment.
Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Chair: Bridger Mitchell, Charles River Associates
Discussant: Ingo Vogelsang, Boston University
Papers:
Using Cost Proxy Models to Analyze Universal Service Funding Options.
PB Schechter, Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel [Abstract PDF]
Proxy Models and the Funding of Universal Service.
David Gabel, Queens College and Scott Kennedy
Some Economics of COLR (Carrier of Last Resort) Auctions. [Abstract]
Valter Sorana, Stanford University
The Cost of the Local Telecommunications Network: A Comparison of Minimum Spanning Trees and the HAI Model [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Christian Dippon; National Economic Research Assoc., and
Kenneth Train; University of California, Berkeley and National Economic Research Assoc.
ANTITRUST CONCERNS IN NETWORK INDUSTRIES
Chair: John Woodbury, Charles River Associates
Papers:
Why Aren’t The RBOC’s Entering the Local and Long-distance Markets Outside of Their Incumbent Territories? [Abstract]
Susan McMaster, MCI
Regulating Anti-competitive Behavior in the Internet Market: An Applied Imputation Model for Developing Countries, the Case of Peru [Abstract PDF] [Paper PDF]
Arturo Briceno, OSIPTEL
Competitive Incentives in Vertical Mergers
Jane Murdoch, Charles River Associates
9:40am-11:10am
PLENARY SESSION:
THE FEDERAL POLICY RESEARCH AGENDA
Chair: Brian Kahin, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
Panel:
Becky Burr, National Telecommunications & Information Admin.
Bennett Bertenthal, National Science Foundation
Kathryn Brown, Federal Communications Commission
Christopher Kelly, Department of Justice
11:10am-11:30am
Break
11:30am-1:00pm
Sessions:
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Chair: Wendy Gordon, Boston University
Discussant: Ken Carter, CITI
Papers:
Shared Information Goods. [Abstract PDF]
Douglas Lichtman; University of Chicago , Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Stanford University and Yannis Bakos, New York University
The Commons as a Neglected Factor of Information Policy. [Abstract][Paper PDF]
Yochai Benkler, New York University
Copyright Law and Price Discrimination
Michael Meurer, Boston Univ. and SUNY at Bufffalo
INTER/INTRANET EFFECTS ON ORGANIZATIONS
Chair: Jeff MacKie-Mason, University of Michigan
Papers:
Intranets and Organizational Change: The Evolutionary Deployment of Corporate Information Infrastructure [Paper PDF]
Francois Bar, Stanford University and Neil Kane, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Stanford University
Internet Price Discrimination: Self-Regulation, Public Policy, and Global Electronic Commerce
Joseph Bailey, University of Maryland [Paper PDF]
The Impact of Settlement Issues on Business Evolution in the Internet [Paper PDF]
Sanford Marble, Bellcore
SPECTRUM ALLOCATION AND AUCTIONS
Chair: Evan Kwerel, Federal Communications Commission
Discussant: Gregory Rosston, Stanford University
Papers:
Collusive Bidding: Lessons from the FCC Spectrum Auctions.
Peter Cramton and Jesse Schwartz, University of Maryland
Combination Bidding in Spectrum Auctions.
Paul Milgrom, Stanford University