Professor Thomas W. Hazlett: Research Papers

• Tragedy of the Regulatory Commons: LightSquared and the Missing Spectrum Rights
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Brent Skorup
  Duke Law & Technology Review (forthcoming 2013)
• Walled Garden Rivalry: The Creation of Mobile Network Ecosystems
  Thomas W. Hazlett, David Teece & Leonard Waverman
  George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 11-50 (2011)
  
• Exactitude in Defining Rights: Radio Spectrum and the ‘Harmful Interference’ Conundrum
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Sarah Oh
  Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 2013)
• What Really Matters in Spectrum Allocation Design
  Thomas W. Hazlett, Roberto Muñoz & Diego B. Avanzini
  10 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property (2012), 93-124
• The Law and Economics of Net Neutrality
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Joshua D. Wright
  45 Indiana Law Review (2012), 767-840
• Radio Spectrum and the Disruptive Clarity of Ronald Coase
  Thomas W. Hazlett, David Porter & Vernon Smith
  54 Journal of Law & Economics (November, 2011), S125-S165
• The Federal Communication Commission's Excellent Mobile Competition Adventure
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  Mercatus Center Working Paper No. 11-46 (November, 2011)
• The Case for Liberal Spectrum Licenses: A Technical and Economic Perspective
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Evan T. Leo
  26 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2011), 1037-1101
• Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony?
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  19 Supreme Court Economic Review (2011), 67-102
• Tragedy T.V.: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  53 Arizona Law Review (2011), 83-130
• Market Power in U.S. Broadband Services
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Dennis L. Weisman
  38 Review of Industrial Organization (March, 2011), 151-71
• Policy-Induced Competition: The Case of Cable TV Set-Top Boxes
  Ralitza A. Grigorova-Minchev & Thomas W. Hazlett
  12 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (2011), 279-311
• The Overly Active Corpse of Red Lion
  Thomas W. Hazlett, Sarah Oh & Drew Clark
  9 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property (2010), 51-95
• A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies [Abstract] [Full Text]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz
  40 RAND Journal on Economics (2009), 424-54
• Spectrum Allocation in Latin America: An Economic Analysis
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz
  21 Information Economics & Policy (2009), 261-78
• Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation [Abstract]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Anil Caliskan
  7 Review of Network Economics (December, 2008), 460-80
• Property Rights and Wireless License Values [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  51 Journal of Law & Economics (August, 2008), 563-98
• Some Dynamics of High-Tech Merger Analysis in General and with Respect to XM-Sirius
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  4 Journal of Competition Law & Economics (2008), 1-21
• A Law & Economics Approach to Spectrum Property Rights: A Response to Professors Weiser & Hatfield
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  15 George Mason Law Review (2008), 975-1023 (Read the other paper in this debate.)
• A Rejoinder to Weiser and Hatfield on Spectrum Rights
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  15 George Mason Law Review (2008), 1031-39 (Read the other paper in this debate.)
• Liberal Rules for a 21st Century World: The U.S. Experience with Convergence
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  Paper Presented to Keidanren (Tokyo, Japan; February 26, 2008)
• Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  22 Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter, 2008), 103-28
• Property Rights to Radio Spectrum in Guatemala and El Salvador: An Experiment in Liberalization [Abstract]
  Thomas W. Hazlett, Giancarlo Ibarguen & Wayne Leighton  
  3 Review of Law & Economics (2007), 437-84
• Cable TV Franchises as Barriers to Video Competition
  Thomas W. Hazlett 
  12 Virginia Journal of Law & Technology (Winter, 2007), 1-82
• Shedding Tiers for a la Carte? An Economic Analysis of Cable TV Pricing
  Thomas W. Hazlett 
  5 Journal of Telecommunications & High Technology Law (2006), 253-303
• The Spectrum-Allocation Debate: An Analysis
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  10 IEEE Internet Computing No. 5 (Sept./Oct., 2006), 68-74
• Rivalrous Telecommunications Networks With and Without Mandatory Sharing
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  58 Federal Communications Law Journal (2006), 477-510
• The Social Value of TV Band Spectrum in European Countries
  Thomas W. Hazlett, Jüergen Müller & Roberto Muñoz
  8 INFO 2 (2006), 62-73
• Advanced Wireless Technologies and Public Policy
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Matthew L. Spitzer
  79 Southern California Law Review (2006), 595-665
• Regulated Unbundling of Telecommunications Networks: A Stepping Stone to Facilities-Based Competition?  
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Coleman Bazelon 
  Paper presented to the 33rd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (September 21-23, 2005) 
  
• Spectrum Tragedies
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  22 Yale Journal on Regulation (2005), 242-74
• Legislators v. Regulators: The Case of Low Power FM Radio [Abstract]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Bruno E. Viani
  7 Business and Politics (April, 2005), 1-31
• Practical Steps to Spectrum Markets
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  27 Telecommunications Policy (2003), 479-80
• Liberalizing U.S. Spectrum Allocation
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  27 Telecommunications Policy (2003), 485-99
• The Arbitrage Mirage: Regulated Access Prices with Free Entry in Local Telecommunications Markets [Abstract]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Arthur M. Havenner
  2 Review of Network Economics No.4 (December, 2003), 440-50
• Is Federal Preemption Efficient in Cellular Phone Regulation?
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  56 Federal Communications Law Journal (December, 2003), 155-237
• The Irony of Regulated Competition in Telecommunications
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  4 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review (2003)
• Canadian Television Policy After Broadcasting
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  Paper presented to the University of Montreal (June, 2002)
• Regulation and Vertical Integration in Broadband Access Supply
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  in, Robert Crandall and James Alleman, eds., Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access? (Washington, DC: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, December, 2002), 197-222
• Financial Effects of Broadband Regulation
  George Bittlingmayer & Thomas W. Hazlett
  in, Robert Crandall and James Alleman, eds., Broadband: Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access? (Washington, DC: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, December, 2002), 245-77
• The Political Economy of Cable "Open Access"
  Thomas W. Hazlett & George Bittlingmayer
  2003 Stanford Technology Law Review 4 (November, 2003), 1-39
• "Open Access": The Ideal and the Real
  George Bittlingmayer & Thomas W. Hazlett
  26 Telecommunications Policy No.5 (June, 2002), 295-310
• The U.S. Digital TV Transition: Time to Toss the Negroponte Switch
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Working Paper 01-15 (November, 2001)
• The Wireless Craze, The Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, The Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase's 'Big Joke': An Essay on Airwave Allocation Policy
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  14 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology No.2 (Spring, 2001), 335-567
• The Fallacy of Regulatory Symmetry: An Economic Analysis of the 'Level Playing Field' in Cable TV Franchising Statutes [Abstract]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & George S. Ford
  3 Business and Politics No.1 (2001), 21-46
• Telecommunications Policy Reform in the United States and Canada
  Robert W. Crandall & Thomas W. Hazlett
  in, Martin Cave and Robert W. Crandall, eds., Telecommunications Liberalization on Two Sides of the Atlantic (AEI/Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2001), 8-38
• Digital Television and the Quid Pro Quo [Abstract]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Matthew L. Spitzer
  2 Business and Politics No.2 (2000), 115-59
• DOS Kapital: Has Antitrust Action Against Microsoft Created Value in the Computer Industry?
  George Bittlingmayer & Thomas W. Hazlett
  55 Journal of Financial Economics (March, 2000), 329-59
  Reprinted in David S. Evans, eds., Microsoft, Antitrust and the New Economy: Selected Essays (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, March, 2002), 193-220
• Digitizing "Must-Carry" under Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (1997)
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  8 The Supreme Court Economic Review (2000), 141-207
• Microsoft's Internet Exploration: Predatory or Competitive?
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  9 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy No.1 (Fall, 1999), 29-59
• Use of Designated Entity Preferences in Assigning Wireless Licenses
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Babette E.L. Boliek
  51 Federal Communications Law Journal (May, 1999), 639-63
• Spectrum Flash Dance: Eli Noam's Proposal for "Open Access" to Radio Waves
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  41 Journal of Law & Economics No.2 (October, 1998), 805-20
• Assigning Property Rights to Radio Spectrum Users: Why Did FCC License Auctions Take 67 Years?
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  41 Journal of Law & Economics No.2 (October, 1998), 529-76
• "Chilling" the Internet? Lessons from FCC Regulation of Radio Broadcasting
  Thomas W. Hazlett & David W. Sosa
  4 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (1998), 35-68
  
• Prices and Outputs Under Cable TV Reregulation
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  12 Journal of Regulatory Economics (September, 1997), 173-95
• Physical Scarcity, Rent-Seeking and the First Amendment
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  97 Columbia Law Review (May, 1997), 905-44
• Was the Fairness Doctrine a "Chilling Effect"? Evidence from the Post-Deregulation Radio Market
  Thomas W. Hazlett & David W. Sosa
  26 Journal of Legal Studies (January, 1997), 279-301
• Cable Television Rate Deregulation
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  3 International Journal of the Economics of Business No.2 (1996), 145-63
• Predation in Local Cable Television Markets
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  40 Antitrust Bulletin (Fall, 1995), 609-44
• The Cost of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Celular Telephone License Lotteries
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Robert J. Michaels
  59 Southern Economic Journal (January, 1993), 425-35
• The Rationality of U.S. Regulation of the Broadcast Spectrum
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  33 Journal of Law & Economics (April, 1990), 133-75
  Reprinted in Stuart M. Benjamin, Douglas G. Lichtman, and Howard A. Shelanski, Telecommunications Law and Policy (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2001)

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