New Perspectives on Spectrum Policy Workshop

Date and Venue:

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

Silverman Hall Room 147, 3400 Chestnut Street, The University of Pennsylvania Law School

Schedule:

• 10:00 - 10:05 AM: Welcome
• 10:05 - 10:50 AM: Gregory L. Rosston, “Using 2-Sided Auctions and Overlay Auctions to Facilitate Reallocation”
• 10:50 - 11:05 AM: Break
• 11:05 - 11:50 AM: Lawrence M. Ausubel, “Market Design and the FCC Incentive Auction” (with Christina Aperjis and Oleg Baranov)
• 11:50 - 1:00 PM: Lunch
• 1:00 - 1:45 PM: Christopher S. Yoo, “Revisiting the Justifications for Unlicensed Spectrum”
• 1:45 - 2:00 PM: Break
• 2:00 - 2:45 PM: Thomas Hazlett, “Transaction Costs in Wireless: Bringing Coasean Symmetry to 5G Spectrum Allocation Policy”
• 2:45 - 3:00 PM: Break
• 3:00 - 3:45 PM: Michael Honig, “The Value of Shared Spectrum” (with Randall Berry, Thanh Nguyen, Vijay Subramanian, and Rakesh Vohra)
• 3:45 - 4:00 PM: Break
• 4:00 - 4:45 PM: Kevin Werbach, “On the Application of Blockchain Technology to Spectrum Sharing” (with Douglas Sicker and Martin Weiss)
• 4:45 - 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks

Organizers:

• Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor of Economics and Electrical & Systems Engineering; University of Pennsylvania
• Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; University of Pennsylvania

Sponsors:

• The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences
• The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition

Registration:

• If you plan to attend, please complete the registration form by April 18th, 2018.