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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak and Michael Stern, Wireless Competition Under Spectrum Exhaust, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 43 (February 2012).
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Phoenix Center 2011 Annual Report
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Mixed Signals on Spectrum Call Into Question FCC Agenda, ROLL CALL (December 12, 2011)
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Can Government Spending Get America Back to Work?, Fox News (November 19, 2011).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Hyeongwoo Kim, and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Can Government Spending Get America Working Again? An Empirical Investigation, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 31 (November 2011).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 11-06:
George S. Ford, On the Road to More Efficient Pricing of Telecommunications Services:  A Look at the Evidence (October 5, 2011).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, and Michael Stern, Shocks to the Broadband Ecosystem:  Implications for Competition and Market Structure, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 30 (September 2011).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 11-05:
George S. Ford, Mobile Broadband and Job Search: An Empirical Test (September 6, 2011).
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski cites Phoenix Center research in USA Today op-ed entitled Expand Broadband to Create Jobs.

PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 11-04:
George S. Ford, Internet Use and Labor Market Participation:  Additional Insights from New and Old Data (August 18, 2011).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Outliving its Usefulness: A Law and Economics Argument for Sunset of Section 629, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 29 (June 2011).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Want Fewer Jobs? Just Create More Regulation, FOX NEWS (June 17, 2011).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Reining Regulation, INDUSTRY TODAY (June 2011).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Burden of Network Neutrality Mandates on Rural Broadband Deployment, 4 Journal of Applied Economy 237 (2010).
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PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PERSPECTIVE No. 11-03:
George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Re-Auction of the D Block:  A Review of the Arguments (May 24, 2011).
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PHOENIX CENTER PERSPECTIVE No. 11-02:
George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Wireless Mergers and Employment:  A Look at the Evidence (May 10, 2011).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak, and Michael Stern, A Policy Framework for Spectrum Allocation in Mobile Communications, 63 Federal Communications Law Journal 639 (2011).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Attention Congress: We Need More Phone Spectrum, And Soon, Forbes.com (May 4, 2011).
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Video and Presentation Slides now available from the Phoenix Center's April 13, 2011 Capitol Hill Workshop featuring a Keynote Address by Congressman Jim Jordan on Regulatory Expenditures, Economic Growth and Jobs:  An Empirical Study.
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George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak and Michael L. Stern, The Broadband Credibility Gap, 19 COMMLAW CONSPECTUS 75 (2010).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Hyeongwoo Kim, and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Regulatory Expenditures, Economic Growth and Jobs: An Empirical Study, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 28 (April 2011).
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George S. Ford, Challenges In Using The National Broadband Map’s Data, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 27 (March 2011).
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T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford, Lawrence J. Spiwak and Michael Stern, A Policy Framework for Spectrum Allocation in Mobile Communications, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY PAPER No. 42 (March 2011).
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George S. Ford, Broadband Expectations and the Convergence of Ranks, 35 TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY 213 (2011).
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George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky ad Lawrence J. Spiwak, The Frontier of Broadband Adoption Across the OECD: A Comparison of Performance, 25 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC JOURNAL 111 (2011).
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George S. Ford and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Public Safety or Commercial Use?  A Cost/Benefit Framework for the D Block, PHOENIX CENTER POLICY BULLETIN No. 26 (March 2011).
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Lawrence J. Spiwak, Wasting Tax Dollars on FCC Policy, MONTGOMERY COUNTY GAZETTE (February 23, 2011)
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PHOENIX CENTER PERSPECTIVE No. 11-01:
Lawrence J. Spiwak, Federalist Implications of the FCC’s Open Internet Order
(February 8, 2011).
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