Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason: Research

Current and Prior Major Projects

STIET: Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions

DEXTER: Decentralized EXchange of Temporally Extended Resources

MARX: The Michigan Adaptive Resource eXchange

PEAK: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge

PRIE: Program for Research on the Information Economy (Also see: slide presentation about PRIE)

University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) Intellectual Property and Economics Group (IPE)

Research Papers (also see Presenting)

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System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals. Presented at Conference on Economics and Usage of Digital Library Collections, 23-24 March 2000.

Automated Strategy Searches in an Electronic Goods Market: Learning and Complex Price Schedules (Forthcoming in Proceedings of ACM Electronic Commerce '99)

Two-sided Learning in an Agent Economy for Information Bundles (forthcoming 1999)

Competition Between Firms that Bundle Information Goods (July 2001)

Economics and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information (forthcoming 1999)

Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Experimental Evidence (August 1999)

A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Usage and Economic Behavior (July 1999)

A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Context and Design (June 1999)

'Bundling' y el Acceso Electronico a la Informacion Academica: El Projecto PEAK" (in Spanish) (December 1998)

Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms (1997)

PEAK: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge (fall 1997)

Book review of Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier (June 1997)

Service Architecture and Content Provision: The Network Provider as Editor (April 1996)

Network Architecture and Content Provision: An Economic Analysis (April 1996)

Internet and Network Economics

A Market-Based Approach to Optimal Resource Allocation in Integrated-Services connection-Oriented Networks Operations Research 50 (4, July-August 2002)

Variable QoS from Shared Web Caches: User-Centered Design and Value-Sensitive Replacement (November 1999)

One Size Doesn't Fit All: Improving Network QoS Through Preference-driven Web Caching (May 1999)

Biased Replacement Policies for Web Caches: Differential Quality-of-Service and Aggregate User Value (January 1999)

A Smart Market for Resource Reservation in a Multiple Quality of Service Information Network (revised Sept. 1997)

Economic FAQs About the Internet (1994-96)

Feedback and Efficiency in ATM Networks (1996)

The Role of Responsive Pricing in the Internet (1996)

Some Economics of the Internet (1996)

Pricing Congestible Network Resources (Sept. 1995)

Some FAQs about Usage-Based Pricing (1995)

Pricing the Internet (1995)

Antitrust, Industrial Organization, and Telecom Policy

Manipulating Interface Standards as an Anti-Competitive Strategy, with Janet Netz, in S. Greenstein and V. Stango, Standards and Public Policy, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006), September 2002.

Antitrust Immunity for Refusals to Deal in (Intellectual) Property Is a Slippery Slope, ABA: The Antitrust Source,July 2002.

What to do About Unilateral Refusals to License? Submitted as testimony to 2002 FTC-DOJ Hearings on "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy," available at http://www.ftc.gov/opp/intellect/detailsandparticipants.htm#May%201:.

An AOL / Time Warner Merger Will Harm Competition in Internet Online Services Report submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission,October 2000.

Telstra's Proposed Acquisition of OzEmail: Harm to Competition in the Australian Market for Internet Service Provision Report submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission,March 2000.

Exercising Market Power in Proprietary Aftermarkets Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 9, no. 2 (2000).

Investment in Cable Broadband Infrastructure: Open Access is Not an Obstacle. A policy research study (Nov. 1999).

Inducements to Advocacy: The Economist as Independent Expert (1999)

Links Between Vertically Related Markets: ITS v Kodak (1999; revised 2002)

Telephony, the Internet, and the Media: Selected Papers from the 25th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference -- Introduction (1998)

Layering for Equity and Efficiency: A Principled Approach to Universal Service Policy (Feb. 1998)

Quantifying the Contribution: Estimates of Telecommunications Services Expenditures Attributable to Online Service Production and Consumption (May 1998)