Publications
Industry Economics Conference 1997: Making Competitive Markets
At the 1997 Industry Economics Conference, Ian Hayne delivered
Spectrum
Property Rights and Practical Auction Design: The Australian Experience
which describes Australia's pioneering development and application of
property-like rights in radiofrequency spectrum, and the allocation of those
rights using the US-designed simultaneous ascending auction. The paper was
subsequently revised and updated for the 1997
Communications Research Forum.
Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Radiocommunications
In 2002 the Australian Productivity Commission conducted an
Inquiry into Radiocommunications. Market Dynamics made a substantial
submission to the Inquiry
and was invited to appear before the
Public Hearings
.
The
Productivity Commission Report No. 22 cited this submission extensively.
Honours Dissertation
Ian Hayne's Honours dissertation was submitted in 1993, yet many of the issues remain deeply relevant in 2013 as media services evolve in response to technological innovation and as policy stagnates.
Service innovations made possible by convergence of communications and computing technologies challenge the basis on which so much communication policy and law is founded. Some forms
of media once exempt from national communication regulation now inhabit the telecommunications domain, inviting
questions about if, and how, they should be covered by the type of regulation that has applied to broadcast media. If they are not to be subject to
restrictive regulation, will they be able to be
sufficiently differentiated from broadcasting to allow industry specific regulation of broadcasting to be unaffected by
their presence?
The approach to mass communication policy and law in Australia is steeped in a public trust
paradigm. The emergence of a diverse market paradigm,
coupled with challenges to the assumptions underlying the
regulation following from the convergence of services and technology
opens new issues to inquiry and compels a redesign of policy.
This dissertation sketches out some of the challenges for broadcasting policy
that lie in this conceptual territory.