Net Neutrality or Minimum Quality Standards: Network Effects vs. Market Power Justifications

Prof. Timothy Brennan, Ph.D. | University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA

Shortbio: Tim Brennan is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a senior fellow with Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington.
Tim's research has covered topics in antitrust, regulation, telecommunications and broadcasting, energy, environmental economics, intellectual property, and the methodology and ethics of public policy. His articles have appeared in journals in the fields of law, media, electricity, philosophy, politics, and history as well as economics. His research in communications has covered vertical integration, cross-subsidization, incentive-based regulation, spectrum ownership, interconnection agreements, content and copyright policy, market definition applications, and most recently, net neutrality. With Karen Palmer at RFF and others, he has co-authored two books on competition and deregulation in the electricity sector. He is co-editor of Economic Inquiry and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Information Economics and Policy, and Communications Law and Policy.
From 1978 to 1986, he was a staff economist with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, where his duties included analysis supporting the antitrust divestiture case against AT&T. During 1996-97, he was the senior economist for industrial organization and regulatory policy on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, working extensively on Intelsat privatization and telecommunications policy. From 2003 through 2005, he served as a staff consultant to the Bureau of Economics of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. During 2006, he held the T. D. Mac-Donald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau, where he worked on deregulation criteria for local telephone service. In addition to those in the US and Canada, he has worked with competition authorities in Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

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