Back From The Ashes? A Next Generation of ICT Regulations and Their Implications

Back From The Ashes? A Next Generation of ICT Regulations and Their Implications

April 17, 2015

8:30AM      Event Registration and Check-In

9:00AM      Overview: Government Intervention in an Online World
Moderator: James Alleman, University of Colorado - Boulder 

  • Regulation 3.0 for Infrastructure 3.0, Eli Noam, Columbia University
  • Regulation: Rulemaking as a Tool of Democracy, Michael Lipsky Demos

9:40AM      ICT's Policy Framework
Moderator: Bob Atkinson, Columbia University

  • Optimal Policy/Regulatory Framework: Centralized or Decentralized? Raul Katz, Columbia University
  • Government Network Infrastructure: Lessons from Australia. Henry Ergas, University of Wollongong
  • National Broadband Plans in Latin America: Government's Role, Judith Mariscal Avilés, Centro de Investigatión y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
  • Discussant: Gregg C. Sayre, Commissioner, New York Public Service Commission

11:00AM     Coffee Break

11:20AM     Regulatory and Deregulatory Failures?
Moderator: Darcy Gerbarg, Columbia University

  • Endogenizing Marginal Costs, Enrico Rossi/Jonathan Liebenau, London School of Economics
  • Progressive Capitalism in the Information Age, Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America
  • Marginal Costs under Uncertainty - Implications for LRIC, James Alleman, University of Colorado - Boulder
  • Discussant: Len Waverman, McMaster University

12:50PM     Lunch

1:40PM       Privacy, Anonymity and Security
Len Waverman, McMaster University

2:10PM       Regulation's Impact: What is the evidence?
Moderator: Jason Buckweitz, CITI, Columbia University

  • Rethinking Regulation for Northern Canada and Alaska, Heather Hudson, University of Alaska & University of California – Berkeley
  • Regulation of ICT Sector: An Empirical Analysis of OECD Countries, Paul Rappoport, Temple University
  • How to Fund an Open, Ubiquitous, Fast, Broadband Internet Utility, Bruce Kushnick, New Networks Institute
  • Discussant: Raul Katz, Columbia University

3:30PM        Coffee Break

3:50PM       What we can take away from these papers? 
Moderator: Heather Hudson, University of Alaska & University of California – Berkeley

  • James Alleman, University of Colorado – Boulder
  • Henry Ergas, University of Wollongong
  • Eli Noam, Columbia University
  • Gregg C. Sayre, Commissioner, New York Public Service Commission
  • Len Waverman, McMaster University