Efficient Relocation of Spectrum Incumbents

Maximizing Spectrum Availability and Exploitation: How to Maximize Spectrum Sharing Benefits to the Incumbents?

A significant portion of the radio frequency spectrum remains underutilized due to exclusive and static allocation of spectrum. Provisioning secondary access to the underutilized spectrum could be beneficial to the incumbents if they could gain significant value out of the fallow spectrum while ensuring protection of their primary services. From an incumbent perspective, the spectrum sharing ap...

Distributed Energy Efficient Node Relocation Algorithm (DEENR)

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their inherent features are vulnerable to single or multiple sensor node failure. Node’s failure can result in partitioning of the networks resulting in loss of inter-node connectivity and eventually compromising the operation of the sensor network. The recovery from partitioning of network is crucial for inter-node connectivity. In literature, a number of...

Patents , Incumbents , and Entry

Incumbents’ Interests and Gender Quotas

The adoption of mandatory gender quotas in party lists has been a subject of discussion in many countries. Since any reform obviously requires the approval of a (sometimes qualified) majority of incumbent legislators’ votes, keeping an eye on incumbents’ interests and incentives in different systems seems a natural thing to do if we want to understand different prospects for reforms in differen...

Creative Destruction and the Valuation of Incumbents

I study empirically the causal effects of creative destruction on incumbent firms. Due to concerns about omitted variables, I exploit characteristics of venture capital industry to derive an instrument for startup activity in an industry; I find that industry-level activity is strongly correlated with public market returns of firms funded by venture capital firms in the industry. I then find th...