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Michelle P. Connolly

Professor of the Practice of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
207 Social Sciences, Durham, NC

Selected Publications


An Economic Model of Tiered Spectrum Access

Journal Article · September 23, 2018 Cite

The 2016 FCC Broadcast Incentive Auction

Journal Article · March 16, 2018 Cite

The Evolution of U.S. Spectrum Values Over Time

Journal Article · February 12, 2018 Cite

The Evolution of U.S. Spectrum Values Over Time

Journal Article Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · February 12, 2018 Open Access Cite

The Digital Divide and Other Economic Considerations for Network Neutrality

Journal Article Review of Industrial Organization · June 2017 Full text Cite

How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle can be Explained by Trade Policy?

Journal Article American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics · October 1, 2015 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Improved Reasoning in Undergraduate Writing through Structured Workshops

Journal Article The Journal of Economic Education · January 2, 2015 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A basic analysis of entry and exit in the US broadband market, 2005-2008

Journal Article Review of Network Economics · January 1, 2013 We conduct a basic analysis of entry and exit in the US broadband market, using a complete FCC census of providers from 2005 to 2008. There is a tremendous amount of (simultaneous) entry and exit in the US broadband market. Most entry is from existing prov ... Full text Cite

Economics at the FCC, 2008-2009: Broadband and merger review

Journal Article Review of Industrial Organization · December 1, 2009 This article focuses on the topic of the National Broadband Plan, which the FCC is mandated to provide to Congress February 17, 2010, the FCC Merger Review process, and the determination of optimal penalties for violations of FCC rules or orders. © 2009 Sp ... Full text Cite

Sustaining the goose that lays the golden egg: A continuous treatment of technological transfer

Journal Article Scottish Journal of Political Economy · November 23, 2009 This paper proposes a simple model of the trade-offs perceived by innovating firms when investing in countries with limited intellectual property rights (IPR). The model allows for a continuous treatment of technology transfer and production cost gains occ ... Full text Cite

The Manhattan metaphor

Journal Article Journal of Economic Growth · December 1, 2007 Fixed operating costs draw a sharp distinction between endogenous growth based on horizontal and vertical innovation: a larger number of product lines puts pressure on an economy's resources; greater productivity of existing product lines does not. Consequ ... Full text Cite

Economics at the federal communications commission: 2006-2007

Journal Article Review of Industrial Organization · September 1, 2007 This article focuses on media ownership and spectrum auction design. These two issues have not only been particularly important at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the last year, but also are being informed by economic analysis either compl ... Full text Cite

Review of "Intellectual Property and Development" ed. Fink and Maskus

Other Journal of Economic Literature · July 2006 Cite

Implications of intellectual property rights for dynamic gains from trade

Journal Article American Economic Review · May 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Human capital and growth in the postbellum South: A separate but unequal story

Journal Article Journal of Economic History · June 1, 2004 This article tests the importance of human capital in explaining convergence across the states from 1880 to 1950. Human capital matters to a state's income level and to its growth rate through technological diffusion. The South, whose overwhelmingly agricu ... Full text Cite

An Economic Model of Tiered Spectrum Access

Journal Article · September 23, 2018 Cite

The 2016 FCC Broadcast Incentive Auction

Journal Article · March 16, 2018 Cite

The Evolution of U.S. Spectrum Values Over Time

Journal Article · February 12, 2018 Cite

The Evolution of U.S. Spectrum Values Over Time

Journal Article Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · February 12, 2018 Open Access Cite

The Digital Divide and Other Economic Considerations for Network Neutrality

Journal Article Review of Industrial Organization · June 2017 Full text Cite

How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle can be Explained by Trade Policy?

Journal Article American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics · October 1, 2015 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Improved Reasoning in Undergraduate Writing through Structured Workshops

Journal Article The Journal of Economic Education · January 2, 2015 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A basic analysis of entry and exit in the US broadband market, 2005-2008

Journal Article Review of Network Economics · January 1, 2013 We conduct a basic analysis of entry and exit in the US broadband market, using a complete FCC census of providers from 2005 to 2008. There is a tremendous amount of (simultaneous) entry and exit in the US broadband market. Most entry is from existing prov ... Full text Cite

Economics at the FCC, 2008-2009: Broadband and merger review

Journal Article Review of Industrial Organization · December 1, 2009 This article focuses on the topic of the National Broadband Plan, which the FCC is mandated to provide to Congress February 17, 2010, the FCC Merger Review process, and the determination of optimal penalties for violations of FCC rules or orders. © 2009 Sp ... Full text Cite

Sustaining the goose that lays the golden egg: A continuous treatment of technological transfer

Journal Article Scottish Journal of Political Economy · November 23, 2009 This paper proposes a simple model of the trade-offs perceived by innovating firms when investing in countries with limited intellectual property rights (IPR). The model allows for a continuous treatment of technology transfer and production cost gains occ ... Full text Cite

The Manhattan metaphor

Journal Article Journal of Economic Growth · December 1, 2007 Fixed operating costs draw a sharp distinction between endogenous growth based on horizontal and vertical innovation: a larger number of product lines puts pressure on an economy's resources; greater productivity of existing product lines does not. Consequ ... Full text Cite

Economics at the federal communications commission: 2006-2007

Journal Article Review of Industrial Organization · September 1, 2007 This article focuses on media ownership and spectrum auction design. These two issues have not only been particularly important at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the last year, but also are being informed by economic analysis either compl ... Full text Cite

Review of "Intellectual Property and Development" ed. Fink and Maskus

Other Journal of Economic Literature · July 2006 Cite

Implications of intellectual property rights for dynamic gains from trade

Journal Article American Economic Review · May 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Human capital and growth in the postbellum South: A separate but unequal story

Journal Article Journal of Economic History · June 1, 2004 This article tests the importance of human capital in explaining convergence across the states from 1880 to 1950. Human capital matters to a state's income level and to its growth rate through technological diffusion. The South, whose overwhelmingly agricu ... Full text Cite

Industry and the family: Two engines of growth

Journal Article Journal of Economic Growth · March 1, 2003 We generalize the class of endogenous growth models in which the scale of the economy has level rather than growth effects, and study the implications of different demographic and technological factors when both fertility choice and research effort are end ... Full text Cite

The dual nature of trade: Measuring its impact on imitation and growth

Journal Article Journal of Development Economics · January 1, 2003 Imports embodying foreign technology raise output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse engineering. This paper quantifies spillovers from high technology imports to domestic imitation and innovation in developed and developing ... Full text Cite

"Mercosur: Implications for Growth in Member Countries"

Journal Article Current Issues in Economics and Finance · May 1999 Cite

Technological Diffusion Through Trade and Imitation

Journal Article FRB of New York Staff Report · February 1997 Cite