Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2003

Recipients of grants from the NET Institute in Summer 2003 (in alphabetical order)

During the summer of 2003, the NET Institute has funded a number of research proposals in the areas of network industries, including wired and wireless networks, “virtual networks,” electronic commerce, telecommunications, and the Internet. For details on the process, see the 2003 call for proposals. The successful projects (in alphabetical order of the researchers) were

1. Fernando Beltran, “Effects of ISP Interconnection Agreements on Internet Competition: The Case of the Network Access Point as a Cooperative Agreement for Internet Traffic Exchange.”

2. Jay Pil Choi, “Antitrust Analysis of Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets: Implications for Pricing, Innovation, and Compatibility Choice.”

3. Chris Forman & Pei-yu Chen, “Network Effects and Switching Costs In the Market for Routers and Switches.”

4. Martha Garcia-Murillo, “Assessing The Impact Of Internet Telephony On The Deployment Of Telecommunications Infrastructure.”

5. David Gilo and Yossi Spiegel, “Network Interconnection with Competitive Transit.”

6. Gautam Gowrisankaran, “Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry.”

7. Christiaan Hogendorn, “Excessive(?) Entry of National Telecom Networks.”

8. Jay P. Kesan and Andres A. Gallo, “Internet Regulation: The Political Economy of ICANN and the Shaping of New Regulatory Regimes for the Internet.”

9. Carleen Maitland, “The Delft UMTS Testbed and End-user Security features” and “End-user Security in Mobile Telecommunications: Policy Perspectives and a Research Agenda.”

10. Marc Rysman, “Adoption Delay in a Standards War,” and “Differentiation Across Standards and Adoption Failure in 56K Modems.”

11. Katja Seim and V. Brian Viard, “The Effect Of Entry And Market Structure On Cellular Pricing Tactics.”

12. Ananth Srinivasan and David Sundaram, “Orchestrating Web Services For Networked Enterprise Collaboration.”