| Telecommunications Policy as Trade Policy |
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| Negotiations with Japan over Interconnection Pricing |
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Wednesday, December 12, 2001
8:15 AM
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Wednesday, December 12, 2001
3:00 AM
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| Location: |
Wohlstetter Conference Center, twelfth floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036 |
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| For several years, the U.S. trade representative has attempted to use the World Trade Organization agreement on telecommunication services as a vehicle for “exporting” American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations, including Japan. This conference explores, from both economic and legal perspectives, the costs and benefits of the metamorphosis of domestic U.S. telecommunications policy into U.S. trade policy. |
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| 8:45 a.m. |
Registration |
| 9:00 |
Welcome: |
Christopher DeMuth, AEI |
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Session 1: Local Competition Policies: Successes and Failures of the United States and Ramifications for Japan |
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Speaker: |
Robert W. Crandall, Brookings Institution |
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Discussants: |
Gary Epstein, Latham & Watkins |
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Harold Furchtgott-Roth, AEI |
| 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:30 |
Policy Briefing: The Administration's Stimulus Package and Its Implications for International Telecommunications |
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Speaker: |
The Honorable Randall S. Kroszner, Member, Council of Economic Advisers |
| 11:00 |
Session 2: Exporting Telecommunications Regulation: The U.S.-Japan Negotiations over Interconnection Pricing |
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Speakers: |
Jeffrey H. Rohlfs, Strategic Policy Research |
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J. Gregory Sidak, AEI |
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Discussants: |
Edward M. Graham, Institute for International Economics |
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Mark S. McConnell, Hogan & Hartson |
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John Thorne, Verizon Communications |
| Noon |
Lunch |
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| 1:00 |
Session 3: European Regulatory Experience with Local Interconnection and Unbundling |
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Speaker: |
Martin Cave, Warwick University United Kingdom |
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Discussants: |
Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania |
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William Lake, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering |
| 2:00 |
Roundtable Discussion: The Future Direction of Trade Policy on Telecommunications Services |
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Featured Discussant: |
The Honorable Kevin J. Martin, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission |
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Moderator |
J. Gregory Sidak, AEI |
| 2:45 |
Adjournment |
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More Information
Heather Dresser
1150 17th St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5884
Fax: 202-862-7171
E-mail: HDresser@aei.org
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Media Inquiries
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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