Professor Thomas W. Hazlett: Research Papers

• Tragedy T.V.: Rights Fragmentation and the Junk Band Problem
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  Paper presented to the Information Economy Project Gridlock Economy Conference (October 2, 2009)
  Paper presented to the Chapman University Economic Science Institute (September 18, 2009)
• A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies [Abstract] [Full Text]
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz
  40 RAND Journal on Economics (2009), 424-54
• U.S. Wireless License Auctions: 1994-2009
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  Paper presented to the ACCC Regulatory Conference in Brisbane, Australia (July 30-31, 2009) 
  Working Paper (July, 2009)
• Modular Confines of Mobile Networks: Are iPhones iPhony?
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  Paper presented to the GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation (May 7, 2009) 
  Working Paper (June, 2009)
• Spectrum Allocation in Latin America: An Economic Analysis
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz
  21 Information Economics and Policy (2009), 261-78
• Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation
  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
  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; Feb. 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
  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 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (September 21-23, 2005) 
  Working Paper (October, 2005) 
• Spectrum Tragedies
  Thomas W. Hazlett
  22 Yale Journal on Regulation (2005), 242-274
• Legislators v. Regulators: The Case of Low Power FM Radio
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Bruno E. Viani
  7 Business and Politics 1 (April, 2005)
• What Really Matters in Spectrum Allocation Design
  Thomas W. Hazlett & Roberto E. Muñoz
  AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
  Working Paper 04-16 (August, 2004)
• 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
  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 and 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
  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] [Full Text]
  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] [Full Text]
  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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