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Regulatory Problems in the New Economy

Anti-trust in High-Tech Industries

Carstensen, Peter: “Remedying the Microsoft Monopoly: Monopoly Laws, the Rights of Buyers, and the Enclosure Movement in Intellectual Property”, in Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Fall 1999), p. 577 – 617

Economides, Nicholas: “The Real Losers in the Microsoft Anti-Trust Case”, in Stern Business (Spring/Summer 2000), www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/sternbusiness.html

Pitofsky, Robert/David Balto: “Antitrust in High-Tech Industries: The New Challenge”, in Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 43, No. 3 - 4 (Fall/Winter 1998), p. 583 – 607

Sheremata, Willow: “’New Issues in Competition Policy Raised by Information Technology Industries”, in Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 43, No. 3 - 4 (Fall/Winter 1998), p. 547 – 582

Varian, Hal/Carl Shapiro: “U.S. Government Information Policy”, Berkeley 1997, www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/policy.pdf 

New! Posner, Richard, Anti-Trust in the New Economy, Olin Working Paper, No. 106, 2000 http://papers.ssrn.com/

Intellectual Property Rights: Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks

Besen S.M/L. J. Raskind, "An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property", in Journal of Economic Perspectives,  3 (Winter 1991), p. 3-27

Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, 2000, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9601.html 

Dickinson, Todd: “The Costs of Internet Piracy for the Music and Software Industries”, Statement, July 2000 http://www.ogc.doc.gov/ogc/legreg/testimon/106s/dickinson0719.htm 

Hunt, Robert: “Patent Reform: A Mixed Blessing For the U.S. Economy?”, in Federal-Bank-of-Philadelphia-Business-Review, Nov.-Dec. 1999, p. 15 – 29, http://www.phil.frb.org/files/br/brnd99rh.pdf  

Hunt, Robert: “You Can Patent That? Are Patents on Computer Programs and Business Methods Good for the New Economy?", in Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review, 2001, www.phil.frb.org/files/br/brq101bh.pdf 

IITF, Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, Report 1995,  http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/

Thurow, Lester: “Needed: A New System of Intellectual Property Rights”, in Havard Business Review, Sept.-Oct. 1997, p. 95 – 103

The Economics and Regulation of Personal Privacy 

Beales, Howard et al.: "Information Remedies for Consumer Protection", in American Economic Review, Vol 71, No. 2 (May 1981), p. 410 - 413

Federal Trade Commission: “Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace”, May 2000, www.ftc.gov/os/2000/05/index.htm#22 

Hagel III, John/Jeffrey Rayport: “The Coming Battle For Customer Information”, in McKinsey Quarterly, No. 3 (1997), p. 65 – 76

Laudon, Kenneth: "Markets and Privacy", in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 9 (Sept. 1996), p. 92 - 104

Varian, Hal: “Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy”, Berkeley 1996, www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/privacy/privacy.pdf 

Federal Reserve Board: "Interagency Financial Institution Web Site Privacy Survey Report," November 1999, www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/surveys/Privacy/privacy.pdf


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