Phoenix Center Policy Papers
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
Communications Commission, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER NO. 13 (August
2002).
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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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Updated Data as of 1 January 2001: Excel PDF
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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