Economics and BBA Faculty

Economics Faculty

Alain Bourdeau de Fontenay, Adjunct Professor
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Ph.D. in Economics, Vanderbilt University

BA with Honors in Economics: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests: The new industrial organization framework (integrating evolutionary economics and modern economic sociology with elements of new classical economics, and linking it to elements of new industrial economics and neoclassical economics); The economics of the “exchange commons”, with a focus on the role of governments and/or communities and associated governance and institutions, to address market failure and to internalize the role of the government, including regulation; The economics of infrastructure; The economics and management of innovation.

Publications

Journal Articles:

2005 “A new view of scale and scope in the telecommunication industry: implications for competition and innovation”. (with J. Liebenau and A.B. Savin) pending; submitted to Communications and Strategies

2002 “P2P, digital commodities, and the governance of commerce”. (with E. de Fontenay) Cyber policy and economics in an Internet age. Lehr, William and Pupillo, Lorenzo, (eds.). New York, N.Y.:Kluwer Academic Press, 2002. 169-196.

2002 - Webcasting, an unequal opportunity market: peering through the Copyright Office's royalty rate proposal. (with E. Bourdeau de Fontenay) New York, NY: Tag It, 20 June 2002. (http://www.taggin.com).

2000 - “Brazil’s Unfinished Telecom Revolution: How is it coming along? Where is it going?,” Keynote address, jointly with Professor Marcio Wohlers, “The Road to Competition,” Joint Institute of the Americas/BNDES Executive Roundtable, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

1999 “Auctions vs. Beauty Contests, is it the Question?” Communications & Strategies, 36, 111-123.
1997 - “Open Video Systems: An Evolution of VDT”. Communications & Stratégies (with E. de Fontenay and L. Pupillo).

1997 - “Telecommunications Demand,” (with J. Alleman), in Donald M. Lamberton, (ed.), New Frontiers in Telecommunications Research, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1997.

1990 - “Un Premier Modèle pour le Marché Français du Vidéotex”, (with F. Gasmi and Q. Vuong) in Innovation, érèglementation et Concurrence dans les Télécommunications, par L. Benzoni and J. Hausman, Editions Eyrolles, Paris, 263-275.

1988 - “Shopping at Tomorrow’s Telecommunications Gateways,” Bellcore Exchange Magazine, (with D. Lehman, E. Ogonek, and M. Shugard).

1987 - « Une réinterprétation de la théorie du choix discret : le modèle à consommation aléatoire », (with Nicolas urien, CNAM), Annales des Télécommunications, Tome 42, N° 11-12, pp. 664-72, 1987.

1984 - “Seasonality in Econometrics,” (with Camille Courchesne) Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.

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