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Yale M. Braunstein is a Professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a doctorate in economics from Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of over 50 articles in the fields of economics and information science and has served as a consultant for several corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and internationally.
As an economist, Yale focuses on competition in information products and services, in particular on how new generations of products and technologies alter the commercial landscape for incumbent players. His research areas include economies of scale and scope, pricing, market structure, and the economics of intellectual property rights. His work has been published in the major scholarly journals in economics, information science, and legal policy.
Yale has also developed financial, forecasting, tariff, and valuation models in areas that include cellular, fixed, and international telecommunications; cable, satellite, and IP television; and broadband. This work has been used by applicants for licenses, regulators, and policy makers in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, China, Ireland, Israel, Sweden, Ukraine, and the UK.
Yale has been a visiting scholar and guest lecturer in China and Germany and at the East-West Center in Hawaii. Working with faculty at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) in Munich, he co-developed and co-taught the course "Realizing Digital Convergence" which was simultaneously offered in Berkeley and Munich with lectures delivered live over the web in both directions.
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