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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Equalizing Competition Among Competitors:  A Review of the DOJ’s Spectrum Screen Ex Parte Filing, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 33 (May 2013).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, and Michael Stern, Wireless Competition Under Spectrum Exhaust, 65 Federal Communications Law Journal 79 (2012).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Pole Tax: Government Slows Down Broadband, Chattanooga Times Free Press (April 3, 2013).
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Testimony of Phoenix Center Chief Economist Dr. George S. Ford before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Communications and Technology, Hearing on “Health Information Technologies: Harnessing Wireless Innovation” (March 19, 2013).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 13-01:
George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Searching for a New Regulatory Paradigm:  A Comment on AT&T’s Petition for Wire Center Trials (February 25, 2013).
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Phoenix Center 2012 Annual Report
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Video from Part II of the Phoenix Center's 2012 Annual U.S. Telecoms Conference.
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Video from Part I of the Phoenix Center's 2012 Annual U.S. Telecoms Conference.
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 12-05:
George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, What is the Effect of Regulation on Broadband Investment? Regulatory Certainty and the Expectation of Returns (September 19, 2012).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, and Michael Stern, Taxation by Condition: Spectrum Repurposing at the FCC and the Prolonging of Spectrum Exhaust, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 44 (September 2012).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 12-04:
George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Justifying the Ends:  Section 706 and the Regulation of Broadband (August 13, 2011).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 12-03:
George S. Ford, Approximating the Distribution of Broadband Usage from Publicly-Available Data (May 31, 2012).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 12-02:
George S. Ford, A Most Egregious Act?  The Impact on Consumers of Usage-Based Pricing (May 23, 2012).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 12-01:
George S. Ford, Regulatory Expenditures, Economic Growth and Jobs:  A Reply to Comments (April 24, 2012).
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George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center March 2012 Working Paper commenting upon PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No 28: Regulatory Expenditures, Economic Growth and Jobs: An Empirical Study
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George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center December 2011 Commentary on PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No 28: Regulatory Expenditures, Economic Growth and Jobs: An Empirical Study
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak and Michael Stern, Social Well-Being and IP Theft: A Dynamic Economic Analysis, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 32 (March 2012).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Need For Better Analysis of High Capacity Services, 28 John Marshal Journal of Computer and Information Law 343.
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak and Michael Stern, Wireless Competition Under Spectrum Exhaust, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 43 (February 2012).
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Phoenix Center 2011 Annual Report
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Mixed Signals on Spectrum Call Into Question FCC Agenda, ROLL CALL (December 12, 2011)
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Can Government Spending Get America Back to Work?, Fox News (November 19, 2011).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Hyeongwoo Kim, and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Can Government Spending Get America Working Again? An Empirical Investigation, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 31 (November 2011).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 11-06:
George S. Ford, On the Road to More Efficient Pricing of Telecommunications Services:  A Look at the Evidence (October 5, 2011).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, and Michael Stern, Shocks to the Broadband Ecosystem:  Implications for Competition and Market Structure, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 30 (September 2011).
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