Scott Wallsten talk notes

Two Cheers for the FCC's Mobility Fund Reverse Auction

A Review of Bessen and Hunt’s Analysis of Software Patents

* Robert Hahn is the executive director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Scott Wallsten is a fellow at the Joint Center and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. We would like to thank Anne Layne-Farrar and Bernard Reddy for helpful comments and Irina Danilkina for research assistance. The au...

Enabling efficient wireless communications: The role of secondary spectrum markets

Howard Symons for valuable insights and help in understanding these markets. We, however, are solely responsible for any mistakes.

Secondary Markets: The Quiet Economic Value Creator*

* We thank Jay Shambaugh and J. Bradford Jensen for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. We also thank the National Association of Realtors for graciously supplying us the data with which we could perform calculation of secondary market for housing as shown in Figure 1.

Antitrust, Two-Sided Markets, and Platform Competition: The Case of the XM-Sirius Merger

Antitrust oversight is crucial for maintaining vibrant competition. Evaluating mergers of platforms carrying digital content such as the proposed merger of XM and Sirius, however, poses new challenges for antitrust officials. In particular, companies like these are platforms in two-sided markets that must find ways to attract subscribers and content. Both subscribers and content providers can c...