James
Alleman


 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

James Alleman is a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia University.  He was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of ColoradoBoulder upon his retirement from the University in 2008. 

 

Dr. Alleman was a Visiting Senior Scholar at IDATE in Montpellier, France in the fall of 2005 and continues his involvement in IDATE’s scholarly activities.  During calendar years 2001 and 2002, he was a Visiting Professor in the Economics and Finance Division at Columbia Business School, Columbia University

 

Dr. Alleman was previously the Director of the International Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Director of Policy Research for GTE, and an economist for the International Telecommunication Union.   He has conducted research in the area of telecommunications policy, with emphasis on pricing, costing, and regulation as well as on interconnection, international telephony settlements, communications in the infrastructure and related areas.  More recently, he has been researching the application of real options valuation techniques to network industries and the causes, consequences and remedies of the financial infirmities of the communications and information technologies sectors.  He provides litigation support in these areas. 

 

Dr. Alleman founded  Paragon Service International, Inc., a communications call-back firm, and has been granted patents (numbers  5,883,964 & 6,035,027 ) on the call-back process widely used by the industry. 

 

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Curriculum Vitae (in pdf  format)

 

Current Activities

 

Activities

 

Books  

Should We Regulate High Speed Internet Access?, (co-editor, Robert Crandall), AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, pp.  i-viii, 1-331, December 2002.

The New Investment Theory of Real Options and Its Implications for Telecommunications Economics, Regulatory Economics Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers (co-editor, Eli Noam), Boston, MA, pp.  i-xi, 1-280, 1999.  

Perspectives on the Telephone Industry:  The Challenge for the Future (co-edited with Richard D.  Emmerson), Harper Row, New York, NY, pp.  i-xviii, 1-324, 1989.

Recent Papers   

 

Real Options Methodology Applied to the Information and Communications Technology Sector:  A Survey,” (with Gary Madden and Hak Kim) Communications & Strategies, No. 70, 2nd. Quarter 2008, pp. 27-44. 

 

An Investment Criterion Incorporating Real Options,” (with Hirofumi Suto and Paul Rappoport), Communications & Strategies, No. 70, 2nd. Quarter 2008, pp. 45-66. 

 

Optimal Pricing with Sunk Cost and Uncertainty,” (co-authored with Paul Rappoport) in The Economics of Online Markets and Information Communications and Technology Networks:  Contribution to Economics Series, (eds. Russel Cooper, Ashley Lloyd, Gary Madden and Michael Schipp), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg (2006), ISSN 1431-1933, pp. 143-155. 

 

Regulatory Failure: Time for a New Policy Paradigm,” (with Paul Rappoport), Communication & Strategy, No.  60, 4th.  Quarter 2005, pp.  105-123.

 

Modelling Regulation with Real Options:  An Extension,” (co-authored with Paul Rappoport), Connecting Societies and Markets, Governance of Telecommunications Networks:  Connecting Societies and Markets, (eds. Brigitte Preissl and Jürgen Müller), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg (2006) ISBN 10 3-7908-1745-7, pp. 459-478 

 

Business Model of Wireless in the USA,” (with Christopher Swann), Mobile Media: Content and Services For Wireless Communications, Düsseldorf, Germany, Jo Groebel, Eli M. Noam, and Valerie Feldmann (eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ (2005), ISBN 0-8058-4642-5, pp. 153-163. 

 

“WTP (Willingness-to-Pay) Analysis of Mobile Internet Demand,” (co-authored with Paul Rappoport and Lester D.  Taylor), Frontiers of Broadband, Electronic and Mobile Commerce, Cooper, Russel and Gary Madden (eds.), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2004), pp.  165 – 180.  

 

"Network Resilience and its Regulatory Inhibitors,” (with Jonathan Liebenau), in Global Economy and Digital Society, Erik Bohlin, Sanford L.  Levin, N.  Sung , and C-H Yoon (eds.) Elsevier, Amsterdam (2004)

 

“A Decision Making Criterion Incorporating Real Options,” (with Hirofumi Suto and Paul Rappoport), Proceedings of Bell University Laboratory Workshop, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 28 May 2003. 

 

“Dominant Carrier Market Power in United States International Telephone Markets” (with Gary Madden and Scott Savage), Applied Economics, volume 35, April 2003, pp.  665-73.

 

 “The Internet and the Demand for News:  Macro- and Microevidence,” (with Paul Rappoport) Crisis Communications: Lesson from September 11, A.  Michael Noll (ed.), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., New York (2004), pp.  151-166.  

 

Modelling Regulatory Distortions with Real Options
Engineering Economics, Vol.  47, no.  4,   December 2002.  

 

Real Options, Real Opportunities , 90-Day Plan , Financial Plan , Optimize, January 2002.

 

Sprint -- GTE's Lost Opportunity , The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Volume III , Madden, Gary (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK 2002. 

 

Forecasting the Demand for Internet Services , The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Volume II , Madden, Gary (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK 2002

 

Universal Service:  A Policy Survey, Review and Critique , The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Volume I, Madden, Gary (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK 2002.

 

A New View of Telecommunications Economics , Telecommunications Policy, January 2002.

 

Trade Imbalances in International Message Telephone Service , Applied Economics, 2000.

 

Poverty of Cost Models, the Wealth of Real Options 

(In The New Investment Theory of Real Options and its Implications for Telecommunications Economics) .   Regulatory Economics Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999).  Alleman and Noam (eds.)

 

Universal Service:  The Poverty of Policy , University of Colorado Law Review, volume 71, number 4, fall 2000.

 

International Settlements: An Analysis of Rates (Communications & Strategies , Issue 30, IDATE, Montpellier, France 2nd.  Quarter, 1998.  )

 

Book Reviews & Others

 

Contact Information

 

telephone:  + 1 303 442-4465

cell:           + 1 917 294-1688

facsimile:   + 1 303 492-1112
e-mail:       James.Alleman@Colorado.edu

 

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