Biden FCC Should Support Enhanced Role of Economics
One of outgoing Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai’s most important achievements has been the establishment of a new Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) at the agency. The FCC has always had the benefit of good economists throughout the agency and also prominent academics who come to serve as chief economist, typically for one-year terms. However, unlike the FTC, with its Bureau of Economics, and many other agencies, the FCC has not had a separate economics group that could provide the agency’s leadership with an independent perspective on proposed regulations […]
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