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[RRE]Telecommunications Policy Research Conference

``` [Despite its dry-sounding name, this conference is not confined to traditional telecom issues but also includes all research that is relevant to the policy issues that arise in any electronic medium, including the Internet. The list of topics in the call for papers is not exclusive, and the program committee is open to other ideas.]

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:53:27 -0500 From: Dawn Higgins Subject: Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty-Seventh Annual TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/ September 25-27, 1999 Alexandria, Virginia

The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) is an annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and industry. The TPRC program is assembled from submitted abstracts, invited papers and proposals for complete sessions.

TPRC is now soliciting proposals for papers or session proposals for presentation at its 1999 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical and/or empirical research relevant to the making of communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC welcomes national, international, or comparative studies. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following. An elaboration for each topic is available at http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/.

  • International Trade and Telecom Services
  • Statistical Analysis of the Telecom Industry
  • Regulation of Online Activities
  • User Studies
  • Evolution of Industry Structure
  • Infrastructure Protection
  • Interconnection and Settlements
  • Policy Impacts on Investment Decisions
  • States
  • Local Access Competition
  • Privacy
  • Online Intermediaries
  • Electronic Political Participation
  • E-Commerce and Taxation
  • E-Commerce Applications (Finance, Publishing, Digital Music, etc.)
  • Broadband and Competition
  • Intellectual Property (Software Patent, Digital Copyright, etc.)
  • Internet and Mass Media
  • Spectrum Management
  • IP Telephony
  • Integrated vs. Open Networks
  • Trust, Reputation and Social Protocols
  • Regulatory Experience in Developing Nations
  • US & EU Regulatory Reviews
  • Changes in Manufacturing Equipment Markets
  • Regulatory Experience in Developed Countries
  • Strategies of Incumbents and Entrants
  • Fixed-Mobile Convergence
  • Pricing Structures in New and Old Services
  • Antitrust Concerns
  • Economic and Social Perspective of Universal Service
  • Pinch Points on the Value Chain
  • Software Competition
  • Institutional Design for Internet Governance
  • Policy & Standards

    • Submissions must be sent electronically to Dawn Higgins at tprc@ei.com. All submissions should be formatted in plain text and enclosed in the body of the message (not sent as an attachment). Submissions should include:

  • Subject area [a topic from the above list or your own description
    • of the subject area]
  • Title
  • Author(s) name, postal address, and email address
  • Abstract of paper or session proposal [not to exceed 300 words]
  • Brief CV with citations to relevant work [not to exceed one page]

    • If a paper is available, it should be sent as an attachment in MS Word or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.

    Submissions are due by March 26, 1999. Selected papers will be required to be no more than 30 pages and will be due to TPRC by August 27, 1999. Papers not received by that date will be removed from the program. TPRC intends to provide access to all accepted papers either through publication on our web site or through a link to its publisher.

    Inquiries may be made to Dawn Higgins: tprc@ei.com or (202) 452-9033 For more information see: http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/

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    TPRC PRIZES FOR PAPERS BY GRADUATE OR LAW STUDENTS

    $1000 - FIRST PLACE, $500 - SECOND PLACE, $300 - THIRD PLACE

    The TPRC offers this award to support and encourage excellence in telecommunications research at the graduate level. The competition is open to all individuals who were graduate or law students on October 1, 1998 (thus, "first-year" faculty members and industry and government professionals may be eligible). Papers may be based on research undertaken for a master's thesis, for a Ph.D. dissertation or for other supervised analytical writing. All papers must be accompanied by a letter of nomination by a faculty member of the university department or law school in which the research was undertaken.

    The award recipients will be invited to attend (and may be asked to present their paper) at the Conference to be held September 25-27, 1999 in Alexandria, Virginia.

    All submissions should be double-spaced and no longer than 30 pages. Papers should be sent as an attachment in MS Word or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) to Dawn Higgins at tprc@ei.com. All submissions must be received by May 7, 1999. ```

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