Quello Center of Telecommunication Management and Law

 
 
   
 

Research

The Quello Center's research programs deal with a range of specific policy areas including governance, innovation, applications of information and telecommunications technology, public management issues, fairness, education, and future implications for society.

The center makes its research materials widely available through various publications, including books, working papers, and conference presentations.


 

 

Ongoing  projects

 

Achieving Innovative and Reliable Services in Unlicensed Spectrum

 

Three-year collaborative project with the WINLAB at Rutgers University and Eric J. Friedman at Cornell University. Studies voluntary and mandatory governance mechanisms for unlicensed spectrum. Funded by the National Science Foundation, (2002-2005).

 

 

Making U.S. Telecommunications Policy

Who Participates and Who is Heard: The Roles of Research and Ideas

 

Will study the role of research and concepts in shaping U.S. telecommunications policy with the goal of mapping who influences (and who is ignored) in public policy making. Funded by the Ford Foundation (2003-2004).

 

 


 

Completed Projects

 

Benefits of Broadband

 

Report reviews the claims as to the benefits of broadband and develops a framework for the design of public policies towards broadband. Funded by MERIT (Download PDF).

 

 


 

Working papers

  1. Bauer, Johannes M., Kim, Jung Hyun & Wildman, Steven S. Broadband deployment: toward a more fully integrated policy perspective. February 28. 2003. WP-01-03. (PDF)

  2. LaRose, Robert. Closing the rural broadband gap: a call for program evaluation. March 19, 2003. WP-02-03. (PDF)

  3. Bauer, Johannes M. The coexistence of regulation, state ownership and competition in infrastructure industries: quagmire or institutional innovation? April 18, 2003. WP-03-03. (PDF)

  4. Bauer, Johannes M. Spectrum management and the mobile services industry. August 1, 2003. WP-04-03. (PDF)

  5. Ting, Carol, Bauer, Johannes M. & Wildman, Steven S. The U.S. experience with non-traditional approaches to spectrum management: Tragedies of the commons and other myths reconsidered. August 31, 2003. WP-05-03. (PDF)


 

 

Recent publications

 

Steven S. Wildman

BOOKS

  • Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation, co-edited with Barbara A. Cherry and Alan H. Hammond, IV, Lawrence Erlbaum, Publishers, 1999.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • With Johannes M. Bauer, "Rethinking Access", The Law Review of Michigan State University - Detroit College of Law, No. 4 (Fall 2002).

  • With Barbara A. Cherry, "Preventing Flawed Communication Policies by Addressing Constitutional Principles," Law Review of the Michigan State University Detroit College of Law, vol. 2000, No. 1 (Spring 2000).

  • With Barbara A. Cherry, "An Institutional Perspective on Regulatory Regimes and Investment Decisions by Telecommunications Providers," Telecommunications and Broadcasting Networks under EC Law: The Protection Afforded to Consumers and Undertakings in the Information Society, Series of Publications by the Academy of European Law Trier, Vol. 27 (2000).

  • With Barbara A. Cherry, "Institutional Endowment as Foundation for Regulatory Performance and Regime Transitions: The Role of the US Constitution in telecommunications Regulation in the United States," Telecommunications Policy, vol. 23, no. 9 (1999).

  • With Debra J. Aron, "Economic Theories of Tying and Foreclosure Applied-and Not Applied-in Microsoft," Antitrust, vol. 14, no. 1 (1999), pp. 48-52.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • With Debra J. Aron , "Effecting a Price Squeeze Through Bundled Pricing," in S. Gillett and I. Vogelsang (eds.), Competition, Regulation and Convergence: Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1999.

  • With Barbara A. Cherry, "Conceptualizing Universal Service Policy: Definitions, Context, Social Process, and Politics," In B. Cherry, S. Wildman and A. Hammond IV (eds.), Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1999.

  • With Barbara A. Cherry, "Unilateral and Bilateral Rules: A Framework for Increasing Competition While Meeting Universal Service goals in Telecommunications," In B. Cherry, S. Wildman and A. Hammond IV (eds.)., Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1999.

  • With Barbara A. Cherry, "Review of Federal Universal Service Policy in the United States," in B. Cherry, S. Wildman and A. Hammond IV (eds.), Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1999.

RESEARCH REPORTS

  • "The Market for Television Advertising: Model and Evidence," with B. D. McCullough and Robert Kieschnick.


Johannes M. Bauer

ARTICLES

  • Bauer, Johannes M. (2003), “License fees and the prices for mobile voice service,” Telecommunications Policy 27, pp. 417-434.

  • With Barbara Cherry (2002), "Institutional arrangements and rate rebalancing: evidence from the U.S. and Europe, Information Economics and Policy 14, pp. 495-517.

  • With Carleen F. Maitland and Rudi Westerveld (2002), "The European market for mobile data," Telecommunications Policy 26, pp. 535-554.

  • With Michel Berne and Carleen Maitland (2002), “Internet access in the European Union and in the United States,” Telematics and Informatics 19, pp. 117-137.

  • Bauer, Johannes M. (1999) "Universal service in the European Union," Government Information Quarterly 16.

  • Steinfield, Charles F., Mahler, Alwin, & Bauer, Johannes M. (1999) "Electronic commerce and the local merchant," Electronic Markets 9, pp. 51-57.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Bauer, Johannes M., Weijnen, Margot P. C., Turk, Adam L. and Herder, Paulien M. (2003). "Delineating the scope of convergence in infrastructures: new frontiers for competition", in: W.A.H. Thissen and P.M. Herder (eds.), Critical Infrastructures - State of the Art in Research and Application, Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer.

  • Bauer, Johannes M.(2002), “Normative foundations of policies towards the European information society,” in: J. Jordana (ed.) Governing telecommunications and the new information society in Europe (London: Edward Elgar).

  • Bauer, Johannes M. (2002) "Regulation in the perspective of the Gemeinwirtschaftslehre",  in: E. Miller and W. Samuels (eds.) An institutionalist approach to public utility regulation (East Lansing: MSU Press).

  • With Carleen F. Maitland (2001), “National level culture and global diffusion: the case of the Internet”, in C. Ess (ed.) Culture, technology, communication: towards an intercultural global village, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Bauer Johannes M. "Technology policy and democratic society," review of recent books on information and communications policy, Journal of Communication 51(2), 2001, pp. 413.

RESEARCH REPORTS

  • With Carleen F. Maitland and Rudi Westerveld, Advanced wireless communications infrastructure: technical, economic, and regulatory conditions of UMTS network deployment, Delft, The Netherlands: Delft University of Technology, August 2001.
  • With Michael Latzer, Stefan Schmitz, Natascha Just, and Peter-Paul Sint, Regionale Auswirkungen des e-commerce in Wien, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, July 2001.
 
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