Economic benefits of license-exempt spectrum
The economic value generated by current and future allocations of unlicensed spectrum - by Richard Thanki, Perspective Associates (September 2009). Funded by Microsoft, this 79-page report looks at benefits specifically for the US economy.
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_doc...
Economic Assessment of the Value of Licence Exempt Bands - research performed for the UK Office of Communication by Indepen, Aegis and Ovum (December 2006)
http://www1.bsc.org.uk/research/technology/research/exempt/econassess/
"Quantifying the costs and benefits of harmonising collective use spectrum across the EU" - Appendix A of Final Report: Study on Legal, Economic and Technical Aspects of 'Collective Use' of Spectrum in the European Community, Mott MacDonald Ltd., Aegis Systems Ltd., IDATE, Indepen Ltd. and WIK Consult (November 2006), 131 pages in English.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/radio_spectrum/_doc...
"Comparing welfare for spectrum property and spectrum commons governance regimes" by Carol Ting, Steven S. Wildman and Johannes M. Bauer, Telecommunications Policy 29 (2005), pages 711–730
http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/en/Document.2830.pdf
"The Economic Case for Dedicated Unlicensed Spectrum Below 3GHz" by William Lehr, New America Foundation Spectrum Series Working Paper #9 (2004)
http://www.newamerica.net/files/Doc_File_1899_working_paper.pdf
"Licensed or unlicensed: the economic considerations in incremental spectrum allocations" by Coleman Bazelon, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 3 (March 2009), pages 110-116
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4804395&isnu...
"Economic Analysis of the Radio Spectrum for Regulatory Purposes" by Morten Falch
and Reza Tadayoni, CTI Working Paper No. 72 (2000), Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark
http://www.cict.dtu.dk/upload/centre/cict/publications/working%20papers/...
"Spectrum Allocation, Spectrum Commons and Public Goods: the Role of the Market" by Phillipa Marks and Brian Williamson, Communications and Strategies No. 67 (2007)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1086308
