Publications

Competition to cable television as the dominant means of delivering video programming via wired infrastructures to the home is starting to emerge in several countries. A few areas have competitive overbuilds and in others innovative broadband service providers (BSPs) are using digital systems to deliver video services. The recent emergence of IPbased video technologies and BSPs has provided…

Recipient of "Top Student Paper by Elsevier" for 2008 Awarded in Prague, CZ

Despite continuing population and economic growth in the Bay Area, the rate of adoption of FasTrak, the electronic toll collection system employed in California, has been significantly lower than similar systems in comparable urban areas of the United States. Prior economic research suggests…

In the early years of the American republic, only white male landowners could vote, and then typically by expressing their preferences in a public setting, for all to witness. Our electoral system has changed drastically since that time; now almost all Americans cast votes with the assistance of computerized equipment. While much good stems from the use of computerized equipment in elections—…

A growing number of systems on the Internet create what we call information pools, or collections of online information goods for public, club or private consumption. Examples of information pools include collaborative editing websites (e.g. Wikipedia), peer-to-peer file sharing networks (e.g., Napster), multimedia contribution sites (e.g. YouTube), and amorphous collections of commentary (e.g…