WORKSHOP

Economics of the Commons: Organizing Private Transactions in Telecommunications

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

9:00-5:00 pm

Columbia University

Uris Hall, Room 141

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9:00-9:15 Introduction – Bob Atkinson, CITI, and Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan University, Visiting CITI [Introduction]

9:15-10:00 The Commons: An Introduction – Jonathan Liebenau, London School of Economics and CITI [Paper] [Presentation]

Telecommunication Commons – Chair, Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, CITI

10:15-11:00 The Question of Spectrum: Technology, Management, and Regime Change –Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania [Paper] [Presentation]

11:00-11:45 Broadband, Universal Service, and Competition – David Gabel, Queens College and MIT [Paper] [Presentation]

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Hepburn Lounge

Commons and Vertical Integration- Chair, Benjamin Bloom, CITI

1:00-1:40 A Stigler-Smith-Young Approach to Vertical Integration – Alain de Fontenay, CITI [Paper] [Presentation]

1:40-2:20 Entry and Vertical Disintegration – Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan University, Visiting CITI [Paper] [Presentation]

Break

Commons and Communities- Chair, Robert Atkinson, CITI

2:30-3:15 Community Formations as Prerequisite to Commercial Entry – Eli Noam, Columbia University and CITI [Paper] [Presentation]

3:15-4:00 Municipal Wi Fi – Sharon Gillette and William Lehr, MIT, Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development, Marvin Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University  [Presentation]

4:00-4:45 The Economics of Peer to Peer – Lorenzo Pupillo, Telecom Italia, CITI [Paper] [Presentation]

4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks – Richard Cawley, Directorate General for the Information Society, European Commission; Visiting Yale University

5:00 Reception