TPRC45

September 7-9, 2017

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Pre-Conference Session

10:30 am Graduate Student Consortium (by invitation)

3:30 pm  Congressional Briefing

A presentation of timely material for Capitol Hill and other government agency staff will be held on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Limited space available.  

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

8:00 am Registration

9-10:40 am Paper Session I
(Five simultaneous tracks of 3 papers per session. For paper titles, click here.)

11:05-12:45 pm Panels 

12:45-2:15 pm Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Introduction: Rebecca Arbogast, Senior Vice President for Global Public Policy, Comcast

Speaker: Johnathan M. Holifield

Johnathan M. Holifield is co-founder of ScaleUp Partners, the nation’s leading consultancy blending economic inclusion and competitiveness to improve the productivity of underserved Americans in today’s Innovation Economy, The firm has provided services to a select group of national economic development and education organizations and institutions, local and state governments and numerous membership associations. 

Mr. Holifield is also a national speaker and author of the book, “Future Economy and Inclusive Competitiveness: How Demographic Trends and Innovation Can Create Economic Prosperity for All Americans.” 

Johnathan holds a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University, and  Master of Education and J.D. degrees from the University of Cincinnati.
                
2:15 pm Panels 

4:10 pm Paper Session II

5:50 pm Reception and Poster Session (click for poster listing)

6:45 pm Dinner and Keynote Speaker

The Honorable Terrell McSweeny, Commissioner, FTC

Prior to joining the Commission, McSweeny served as Chief Counsel for Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Relations for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She joined the Antitrust Division after serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President from January 2009 until February 2012, advising President Obama and Vice President Biden on policy in a variety of areas, including health care, innovation, intellectual property, energy, education, women’s rights, criminal justice and domestic violence.

McSweeny’s government service also includes her work as Senator Joe Biden’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director in the U.S. Senate, where she managed domestic and economic policy development and legislative initiatives, and as Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she worked on issues such as criminal justice, innovation, women's rights, domestic violence, judicial nominations and immigration and civil rights. She also worked as an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

McSweeny is a graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown University Law School.

Saturday, SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

9-10:40 am Paper Session I

11:10-12:50 pm Paper Session II

(Five simultaneous tracks of 3 papers per session. For paper titles, click here.)

12:50-2:00 pm Lunch and Student Paper Awards

2:00-3:30 pm Paper Session III

4:00-5:40 pm Paper Session IV

(Five simultaneous tracks. For paper titles, click here.)

5:40 pm Reception

Paper Sessions

Friday, September 8, 9:00 - 10:40 am

Broadband 1

Moderator: Patrick Sun, FCC

• You Get What You Measure: Internet Performance Measurement as a Policy Tool, Richard Bennett, High Tech Forum

• An Empirical Evaluation of Deployed DPI Middleboxes and Their Implications for Policymakers, David Choffnes, Northeastern University, Phillipa Gill, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Alan Mislove, Northeastern University

• Disclosures on Network Management Practices and Performance of Broadband Service, Juan Manuel Roldan, Carnegie Mellon University

Security/Privacy 1

Moderator: Bill Lehr, MIT

• How the GDPR Stacks Up to Best Practices for Privacy, Accountability and Trust
  Roslyn Layton, Aalborg University

• Balancing Security and Other Requirements in Hastily Formed Networks: The Case of the Syrian Refugee Response
  Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University, Rakesh Bharania, Tarian Innovation

• Cyber Security Capacity: Does It Matter?
  William H. Dutton, Michigan State University - Quello Center, Sadie Creese, University of Oxford, Ruth Shillair, Michigan State University - Department of Telecommunication, Maria Bada, University of Oxford, Taylor Roberts, University of Oxford

Social Media 1

Moderator: Debra Berlyn, Consumer Policy Solutions, Project GOAL

• Whom the Revenue Goes: A Network Economic Analysis of the Price War in the Wireless Telecommunication Industry, Vaggelis Douros*, RWTH Aachen University, Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University

• The Functionalities of Success - A Psychological Exploration of Mobile Messenger Apps Success
  Rene Arnold, Wissenschaftliches Institut fur Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste, Anna Schneider, Hochschule Fresenius - University of Applied Sciences

• User-Generated Content: An Examination of Users and the Commodification of Instagram Posts
  June Price Macon, University of Illinois Chicago

Digital Inclusion 1

Moderator: Chris McGovern, Connected Nation

• Common Sense: An Examination of Three Los Angeles Community WiFi Projects that Privileged Public Funding Over Commons-Based Infrastructure Management
  Gwen Shaffer, California State University Long Beach

• Connecting the Unconnected: The Case of Mexico's Wholesale Shared Network
  Zoraida Frias, Universidad Politocnica de Madrid, Catalina Ovando, Posgrados UPAEP, Juan Carlos Bocarando, Universidad Popular Autanoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP)

• Digital and Economic Inclusion: How Internet Adoption Impacts Banking Status
  Giulia McHenry, Government of the United States of America - National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Rafi M. Goldberg, US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Maureen Lewis, Government of the United States of America - National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Edward Carlson, Government of the United States of America - National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Ishan Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology

Economics/Political Economy 1

Moderator: Martin Weiss, University of Pittsburgh

• A Typology of Information Distribution Organizations
  Jasmine E. McNealy, University of Florida - College of Journalism & Communication

• Technological Diversification into "Blue Oceans"? A Patent-Based Analysis of Patent Profiles of ICT Firms
  Bert M. Sadowski, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Jason Whalley, Northumbria University, Onder Nomaler, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE)

• Using Aggregate Market Data to Estimate Patent Value
  R. Scott Hiller, Fairfield University - Department of Economics, Scott Savage, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics, Donald Waldman, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics

Friday, September 8, 4:10 - 5:50 pm

Broadband 2

Moderator: Marvin Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University

• Tomorrow's Backhaul: Comparative Analysis of Backhaul Cost for Next Generation Mobile Broadband
  Adnan Munir Mian, University of Colorado Boulder (Student Paper Winner)

• Investigating End-To-End Integrity Violations in Internet Traffic
  Alan Mislove, Northeastern University, David Choffnes, Northeastern University, Taejoong Chung*, Northeastern University

• The Effects of Broadband Data Caps: A Critical Survey
  Scott Jordan, University of California, Irvine

IOT

Moderator: Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

• Commodifying Trust: Trusted Commerce Policy Intersecting Block-chain and IoT
  Lee W. McKnight, Syracuse University iSchool, Richie Etwaru, Syracuse University, Yihan Yu, Syracuse University

• Information Policy Dimension of Emerging Technologies
  Radhika Garg, University of Zurich, Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich - Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, Burkhard Stiller

• Mitigating Risk: Insurance for the Internet of Unexpected Things
  Martin Saint, Carnegie Mellon University, Aminata Garba, Carnegie Mellon University

ICT and Emerging/Developing Economies 1

Moderator: S. Jenell Trigg, Lerman Senter

• TV White Space as a Feasible Solution to Spread Mobile Broadband
  Miquel Oliver, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Francisco Salas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

• Web Accessibility Standards as Organizational Innovations: An Empirical Analysis in a Developing Country Context
  Krishna Jayakar, Pennsylvania State University, Zhiwei Tang, Huiping Zhang, Yang Bai, Pennsylvania State University - College of Communications

• Understanding Mobile Service Substitution and the Urban-Rural Digital Divide in Nigeria
  Erezi Ogbo, Carnegie Mellon University, Tim Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, Douglas Sicker, Carnegie Mellon University

Economics/Political Economy 2

Moderator: Tim Brennan, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus

• Sensitive-by-Distance: Quasi-Health Data in the Algorithmic Era Gianclaudio Malgieri*, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Faculty of Law

• Identifying Market Power in Times of Constant Change
  Janice Alane Hauge, University of North Texas, Mark Jamison, University of Florida

• Beyond the Mogul: From Media Conglomerates to Portfolio Media
  Eli M. Noam, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

Economics/Political Economy 3

Moderator: Olga Ukhaneva, Navigant and Georgetown University

• Communications Act 2021, William Lehr*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Douglas Sicker, Carnegie Mellon University

• Price and Quality Competition in U.S. Broadband Service Markets
  Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Carlos Herrera, University of Texas at ADept of Economics

• Complementary Realities: Public Domain Internet Measurements in the Development of Canada's Universal Access Policies
  Reza Rajabiun, Ryerson University, Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University, Quebec

Saturday, September 9, 9:00 - 10:40 am

Broadband 3

Moderator: Jane Coffin, Internet Society

• Regulating the Open Internet: Past Developments and Emerging Challenges
  Kendall J. Koning, Aleksandr Yankelevich*, Michigan State University - Quello Center

• The Internet of Platforms and Two-sided Markets: Implications for Competition and Consumers
  Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University

• Smartphones and Urban Transportation Mode Choice
  Joseph F Wyer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Wesley W. Wilson, University of Oregon - Department of Economics

Digital Inclusion 2

Moderator: Mark Jamison, University of Florida

• Learning from or Leaning On? How Children Affect Internet Use by Adults'
  Hernan Galperin, University of Southern California, Malena Arcidiacono, CEDLAS-UNLP

• Libraries, the National Digital Platform, and Inclusion
  Sharon Strover, University of Texas at Austin, Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University, Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons College, Alexis Schrubbe, University of Texas at Austin, Radio-Television-Film

• What is the Impact of Broadband Bandwidth Variability on Quality of Life?: Lessons from Sweden
  Moinul Zaber, University of Dhaka, Erik Bohlin, Chalmers University of Technology

Spectrum 1

Moderator: Giulia McHenry, NTIA

• The Evolution of U.S. Spectrum Values Over Time
  Michelle P. Connolly, Duke University - Department of Economics, Nelson Sá, Vassar College, Christoper Roark, Duke University, Department of Economics, Azeem Zaman, Duke University, Department of Economics

• Spectrum Policies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
  Alexandre K. Ligo, Carnegie Mellon University, Jon M. Peha, Carnegie Mellon University

• A New Spectrum License for Old Circumstances: A Retrospective Look at the Nextel Interference Proceedings
  Martin Saint, Carnegie Mellon University, Tim Brown, Carnegie Mellon University

Economics/Political Economy 4

Moderator: Andrew Stivers, FTC

• Policy Alternatives for Better and Wiser Use of the NGN: Competition, Functional Separation, or What? Bronwyn E. Howell, Victoria University of Wellington, Masatsugu Tsuji*, University of Hyogo, Sobee Shinohara, KDDI Research, Inc.

• Degrees of Ignorance About the Costs of Data Breaches: What Policymakers Can and Can't Do About the Lack of Good Empirical Data
  Josephine Wolff, Rochester institute of Technology, William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

• Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies: How Do Carriers Write Policies and Price Cyber Risk?
  Sasha Romanosky, RAND Corporation, Lilian Ablon, RAND Corporation, Andreas Kuehn, RAND Corporation, Therese Jones, RAND Corporation

ICT and Emerging/Developing Economies 2

Moderator: Jack Karsten, Brookings

• A Socio-Technical Analysis of China's Cyber Security Policy: Towards Delivering Trusted E-Government Services
  Huiping Zhang, Zhiwei Tang, Krishna Jayakar, Pennsylvania State University

• Getting There from Here: 30 in 2020 in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  Lee W. McKnight, Syracuse University iSchool, Yihan Yu, Syracuse University

• Mobile Communications Among the Bedouin in Israel: The Digital Exclusion of an Indigenous People
  Amit M. Schejter*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ghalia Abu Kaf, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Saturday, September 9, 11:10 - 12:50 pm

Spectrum 2

Moderator: Doug Brake, ITIF

• Cellular Economies of Scale and Why Disparities in Spectrum Holdings are Detrimental
  Jon M. Peha, Carnegie Mellon University

• The Devil Is in the Details: Lessons from Indian Spectrum Auctions, Rehka Jain, IIMA-IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence, IIMA

Public Policy 1

Moderator: Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin

• Spectrum Management Issues for the Operation of Commercial Services with Drones Carlos Caicedo, Syracuse University - School of Information Studies

• Price-Cap Regulation of Firms that Supply Their Rivals
  Omar A Nayeem, Federal Communications Commission, Aleksandr Yankelevich, Michigan State University - Quello Center

• An Economic Welfare Analysis of Shared Spectrum Use: A Case Study of LTE-U/LAA
  Mark Bykowsky, Federal Communications Commission, William W. Sharkey, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Broadband 4

Moderator: Randolph May, The Free State Foundation

• The 'Innovation Radar': A New Policy Tool to Support Innovation Management
  Paul Desruelle, European Commission Joint Research Center, Daniel Nepelski

• A Practical Guide to Applying the Law of the Sea into the Internet: Where the Internet Root Zone and the High Seas Find Each Other
  Patricia Adriana Vargas Leon, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, Farzaneh Badiei, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Compatibility and Interoperability in Mobile Phone-Based Banking Networks
  Nicholas Economides, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics, Przemyslaw Jeziorski, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Economics/Political Economy 5

Moderator: Scott Wallsten, TPI

• An Analysis of Job and Wage Growth in the Telecom/Tech Sector
  Michael Mandel, Progressive Policy Institute

• Crowd Sourcing Internet Governance: The Case of ICANN’s Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation
  Brandie Martin Nonnecke, University of California Berkeley, Dmitry Epstein, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Communication

• Changing Markets in Operating Systems; a Socio-Economic Analysis, Silvia Monica Elaluf-Calderwood, Florida International University, Jonathan Liebenau*, London School of Economics & Political Science, Enrico Rossi, London School of Economics and Political Science

Adoption and Use 1

Moderator: Octavian Carare, FCC

• Municipal Fiber in the United States: An Empirical Assessment
  Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Timothy Pfenninger, University of Pennsylvania

• The Empirical Economics of Online Attention
  Andre Boik, University of California, Davis - Department of Economics, Shane M. Greenstein, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy

• When Regulation Fills a Policy Gap: Toward Universal Broadband in the Remote North
  Heather Hudson, University of Alaska Anchorage - Institute of Social and Economic Research

Saturday, SEPTEMBER 9, 2:00 - 3:40 PM

Broadband 5

Moderator: David Gabel, Queens College

• Towards the Successful Deployment of 5G in Europe: Two Contrasting Scenarios
  Wolter Lemstra, Delft University of Technology - Department Technology, Policy and Management

• Understanding the Trend to Mobile-Only for Internet Connections: A Decomposition Analysis
  Jacob Manlove, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Agricultural Economics (Student Paper Winner)

• The Evolution of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem: A Peering Policy Survey Robert Cannon

Security/Privacy 2

Moderator: Jesse Sowell, Stanford University

• Networked Privacy and Security - Examples and Suggestions
  Jonathan Cave, University of Warwick

• Privacy, Information Acquisition, and Market Competition
  Soo Jin Kim, Michigan State University - Department of Economics

• Smile for the Camera: Privacy and Policy Implications of Emotion AI
  Elaine Sedenberg, University of California, Berkeley, John Chuang, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information

Social Media 2

Moderator: 

• The Challenge of Internet and Social Media on Shield Law Legislation: Four Dimensions of Reporter's Privilege
  Tuomo Möra, University of Helsinki

• Siri, Who's the Boss? For Whom Do Intelligent Agents Work?
  Salil K. Mehra, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law

• What If More Speech Is No Longer the Solution? First Amendment Theory Meets Fake News and the Filter Bubble
  Philip M. Napoli, Duke University

Digital Inclusion 3

Moderator: Linda Alki, SURA

• Geographic Patterns and Socio-Economic Influences on Internet Use in U.S. States: A Spatial and Multivariate Analysis
  Avijit Sarkar, University of Redlands - School of Business, James B. Pick, University of Redlands, Elizabeth Parrish, University of Redlands - School of Business

• Distinguishing Bandwidth and Latency in Household's Willingness-To-Pay for Broadband Internet Speed
  Yu-Hsin Liu, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute

• Race and Digital Inequality: Policy Implications
  Colin H Rhinesmith, Simmons College, Bianca Christin Reisdorf, Michigan State University

Economics/Political Economy 6

Moderator: Trey Hanbury, Hogan Lovells

• Uncertainty in the National Infrastructure Assessment of Mobile Telecommunications Infrastructure
  Edward Oughton, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Zoraida Frias, Universidad Politocnica de Madrid, Tom Russell, University of Oxford, David Cleevely

• Limiting the Market for Information as a Tool of Governance: Evidence from Russia
  Klaus Ackermann, Center for Data Science and Public Policy, University of Chicago

• Business Data Services after the 1996 Act: Structure, Conduct, Performance in the Core of the Digital Communications Network
  Mark Cooper, Institute for Energy and the Environment

Saturday, September 9, 4:05 - 5:45 Pm

Spectrum 3

Moderator: Peter Tenhula, NTIA

• Matching Markets for Spectrum Sharing
  Marcela M. Gomez, University of Pittsburgh - School of Information Sciences, Martin B. H. Weiss, University of Pittsburgh - School of Information Sciences, Giulia McHenry, Government of the United States of America - National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin

• Streamlining Permitting Processes for Small Cells in the Right of Way
  Irena Stevens, University of Colorado at Boulder, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program

• Not a Scarce Natural Resource: Alternatives to Spectrum-Think
  Jeffrey Westling, University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law, Jean Pierre De Vries, University of Colorado at Boulder Law School - Silicon Flatirons Center

Broadband 6

Moderator: Christopher Lewis, PublicKnowledge

• Social Shaping of the Politics of Internet Search and Net-working: Moving Beyond Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News
  William H. Dutton, Michigan State University - Quello Center, Bianca Christin Reisdorf, Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa, Grant Blank, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

• Number Effects and Tacit Collusion in Oligopolistic Markets
  Niklas Horstmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Jan Kraemer, University of Passau, Daniel Schnurr, University of Passau

• Dropping the Bundle? Welfare Effects of Content and Internet
  Petrus Potgieter, University of South Africa, Bronwyn E. Howell, Victoria University of Wellington - School of Management

Adoption and Use 2

Moderator: Jim McConnaughey, NTIA (retired)

• Police Perceptions of Body-Worn Cameras
  Max Goetschel*, Carnegie Mellon University, Jon M. Peha, Carnegie Mellon University

• How News Organizations Paraphrase Their Stories on Social Media? Computational Text Analysis Approach Chankyung Pak, Department of Media and Information

• An Analysis of Diffusion of Universal Basic Income Policy Over Twitter
  Jeff Hemsley, Martha Garcia-Murillo, Syracuse University - School of Information Studies, Ian MacInnes*, Syracuse University

Economics/Political Economy 7

Moderator: Fernando Laguarda, American University

• How Compatible are the DOJ and FCC's Approaches to Identifying Harms to Telecommunications Innovation?
  Ryland Sherman, Indiana University Bloomington

• Emerging Business Models in the OTT Service Sector: A Global Inventory
  Eun-A Park, Western State Colorado State University

• Global Governance of the Embedded Internet: The Urgency and the Policy Response
  Jenifer Sunrise Winter, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Richard D. Taylor, University of Hawaii School of Comms

Public Policy 2

Moderator: Gavin Logan, National Urban League

• Fake News, Fake Problem? An Analysis of the Fake News Audience in the Lead Up to the 2016 Presidential Election
  Jacob Nelson, Northwestern University (student paper winner)

• Exploration of the Federal Communications Commission's Experimental Radio Service (ERS): Understanding of Ten Years of Experimental Spectrum Licenses
  Pedro Jose Bustamante, University of Pittsburgh - School of Information Sciences, Martin B. H. Weiss, University of Pittsburgh - School of Information Sciences, Douglas Sicker, Carnegie Mellon University

• From Net Neutrality to Application Store Neutrality? The Impact of Application Stores’ Ranking Policies on Application Quality and Welfare
  Jan Kraemer, University of Passau, Oliver Zierke, University of Passau