Workshop: Economic Issues in Broadband Competition

Consumer and firm demand for broadband and provider supply of broadband services are both influenced by the extent of competition among broadband providers. Competition can deliver low prices and high quality services to buyers, and influence the scope and timing of provider investments and innovation.

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• Do broadband providers currently exercise market power? How does the answer vary by type of customer and geographic region?
• What are the prospects for new broadband competition from wireless and electricity providers?
• Are any other types of entry on the horizon?What strategies should the FCC and other governmental actors employ to foster broadband competition and entry?
• What regulatory strategies would protect competition and consumers in broadband markets not performing competitively? What conduct by broadband monopolists or duopolists would be particularly troublesome? Can that conduct be prohibited at low cost in production efficiency, and without discouraging investment and innovation or distorting competition in unregulated markets?

• Judith A. Chevalier, William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale School of Management
• Joseph Farrell, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission (on leave from Department of Economics, UC-Berkeley)
• Shane Greenstein, Elinor and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Marius Schwartz, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
• Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (on leave from positions as Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business, and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department)

• FCC Participants: Colin Crowell, Senior Counselor to the Chairman; Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering; John Leibovitz, Deputy Chief, Wireless Bureau; Dr. Jon Peha, Chief Technologist 

• Thoughts on Broadband Competition and Product Bundles
  • Judith Chevalier, William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale School of Management
• Glimmers and Signs of Innovative Health in the Commericial Internet
  • Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University
• Remarks on Broadband Competition and Access Regulation
  • Marius Schwartz, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University 
• Workshop Transcript