Phoenix Center Policy Papers

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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Broadband Efficiency Index: What Really Drives Broadband Adoption Across the OECD? PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 33 (May 2008).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Welfare Impacts of Broadband Network Management: Can Broadband Service Providers be Trusted? PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 32 (March 2008).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Demographic and Economic Drivers of Broadband Adoption in the United States, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 31 (November 2007).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Quantifying the Cost of Substandard Patents: Some Preliminary Evidence, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 30 (September 2007).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Broadband Performance Index: A Policy-Relevant Method of Comparing Broadband Adoption Among Countries, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 29 (July 2007).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Network Neutrality and Foreclosing Market Exchange: A Transaction Cost Analysis, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 28 (March 2007)
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Tort Liability for Software Developers: A Law & Economics Perspective, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 27 (January 2007)
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George S. Ford, An Investigation into the Influence of Retail Gas Prices on Oil Company Profits, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 26 (August 2006).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Burden of Network Neutrality Mandates on Rural Broadband Deployment, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 25 (July 2006).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Network Neutrality and Industry Structure, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 24 (April 2006).
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Phoenix Center Policy Paper No. 23 Addendum: Franchising and the Digital Divide: The New Jersey Experience, Presented as Testimony of Lawrence J. Spiwak before the Telecommunications Committee, New Jersey House of Delegates (23 February 2006).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Impact of Video Service Regulation on the Construction of Broadband Networks to Low-Income Households, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 23 (September 2005).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Consumer Welfare Cost of Cable “Build-out” Rules, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 22 (Third Release, January 2007).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Competition After Unbundling: Entry, Industry Structure and Convergence, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 21 (July 2005).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Quantity-Discount Contracts as a Barrier to Entry, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 20 (November 2004).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Positive Effects of Unbundling on Broadband Deployment, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 19 (September 2004).
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George Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Set It and Forget It? Market Power and the Consequences of Premature Deregulation in Telecommunications Markets, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 18 (July 2003); to be reprinted in NYU JOURNAL OF LAW AND BUSINESS (forthcoming Spring 2005).
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T. Randolph Beard and Christopher C. Klein, Bell Companies as Profitable Wholesale Firms: The Financial Implications of UNE-P, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 17 (November 2002).
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T. Randolph Beard and George S. Ford, What Determines Wholesale Prices for Network Elements in Telephony? An Econometric Evaluation, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 16 (September 2002).
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George S. Ford, A Fox in the Hen House: An Evaluation of Bell Company Proposals to Eliminate their Monopoly Position in Local Telecommunications Markets, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 15 (September 2002).
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T. Randolph Beard and George S. Ford, Make or Buy? Unbundled Elements as Substitutes for Competitive Facilities in the Local Exchange Network, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 14 (September 2002).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Telecoms Twilight Zone: Navigating the Legal Morass Among the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, and the Federal
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Why ADCo? Why Now? An Economic Exploration into the Future Industry Structure for the "Last Mile" in Local Telecommunications Markets, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 12 (November 2001); reprinted in 54 Fed. Com. L. J. 421 (May 2002) (http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v54/no3/spiwak.pdf)
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George S. Ford, An Economic Analysis of the FCC’s Notice of Inquiry on Flat Rate Charges in the Long Distance Industry, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 11 (May 2001).
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Jerry B. Duvall and George S. Ford, Changing Industry Structure: The Economics of Entry and Price Competition, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 10 (April 2001).
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Lucien Rapp, Dirty Dancing: System and Legal Practices with Regard to Rights-of-Way (RoWs) in a Sampling of European Union Member States – A Critical Study, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 9 (April 2001).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, eEurope Means Nothing Without eEntry: Regulatory Harmonisation, Subsidiarity and the Realisation of the Information Society, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 8 (October 2000).
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George S. Ford, Flow-Through and Competition in the International Message Telephone Service Market, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 7 (September 2000)
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Do the FCC Policies Promote or Deter Entry? That is the ONLY Question, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 6 (October 1999).
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Mark Naftel, Does the European Commission's Telecommunications Access Notice Send the Correct Economic Signals to the Market?, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 5 (January 1999).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, You Say ISO, I Say Transco, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Why Current Electric Utility 'Unbundling' Initiatives Work Without Fundamental Change, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 4 (January 1999).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, FERC Merger Analysis Post-Order No. 888: Where do we go From Here?, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 3 (August 1998).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Reconcentration of Telecommunications Markets After the 1996 Act: Implications for Long-Term Market Performance (Second Edition), PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 2 (July 1998).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Utility Entry Into Telecommunications: Exactly How Serious Are We?, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 1 (July 1998).
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