Krishna Jayakar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krishna Jayakar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krishna |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayakar |
| SIGNATURE | JAYAKAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6731-9321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Same goal, different paths
Learning from the neighbors
Impact of free trade agreements on Internet domain name arbitration cases
This study examined whether the presence of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and a foreign country significantly affected the outcomes of Internet domain name dispute arbitration cases, conducted within the framework of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Data were collected for 2797 arbitration cases filed during the 2001–2019 period from ten countries, five with US FTAs and five without. Logistic regression analy…
Emergence of OTT Video and the Production Expenditures of Established Audiovisual Producers
This paper examines the audiovisual programming and production expenditures of leading US media distributors, in the context of the market entry of Over-The-Top content distributors such as Netflix. Using data from the annual SEC filings of publicly traded audiovisual production companies over 2008–2017, it seeks to provide insights into how production expenditures figure as part of a competitive strategy in the context of new media growth. The r…
Remarriage in India
Traditionally, attitudes towards remarriage in India have been characterised by scepticism and suspicion, especially in the case of women. Online remarriage sites promised to open up new possibilities for Indians seeking remarriage. A study of self-presentation strategies adopted by men and women in their online profiles posted on a popular remarriage site shows that while the new technology may have made it easier for divorced and widowed indivi…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This essay is an introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Information Policy (JIP) on the workshop titled “Broadband Research in a Changing World” that met at the American University Washington College of Law, on September 10, 2017. It provides an overview of the multistage process that resulted in the September 10 workshop, introduces the two articles included in the special issue, and summarizes the views and opinions of workshop par…
Networking China
The phenomenal growth of the Chinese economy, and especially its information technology and communications sectors, has attracted a steady stream of scholarly and trade press publications over the last several years. But few authors have come to grips with the ramifications of the unprecedented global economic crisis of 2008 and its impact on Chinese policymakers and industry leaders as well as Professor Yu Hong does in her new book, Networking C…
Universal Broadband
Efforts to encourage universal access to information and communication technologies have run into the problem that some individuals, for reasons of affordability, lack of awareness or preference, continue to be without subscriptions. This article examines the arguments commonly put forward in support of promoting broadband access, to determine whether they can justify universalizing access. It examines the ethical limits of government actions tha…
The Dynamics of Spectrum Management
At a trade conference in March 2015, Ulf Ewaldsson, chief technology officer at Ericsson, stated with only a little exaggeration that the electromagnetic spectrum in the near future will be more valuable than oil. Though rapacious battles for black gold may be a thing of the past, Ewaldsson's evocation of a new no-holds-barred struggle for control of the spectrum does not seem so outlandish, given the burgeoning demand for mobile connectivity exp…
Promoting Broadband and ICT Access for Disabled Persons
Despite the promise of broadband to improve the lives of persons with disabilities, there are wide disparities in access and usage between disabled and nondisabled populations. This article examines ten case studies of policies and programs promoting ICT and broadband access for persons with disabilities in the leading economies of the Asia-Pacific region, in order to identify factors behind programs that succeed on the basis of effectiveness and…
The Race between the Dragon and the Elephant
Some 134 national broadband plans are now in place around the world. Opinions are divided regarding the role of government in broadband markets: should the government act as an 'enabler' or as the 'rule-maker'? In this context, this article analyses the ambitious national broadband plans recently announced by China and India, two rising economic powerhouses. Traditionally, China's telecommunications development has been driven by investments from…
Broadband Availability and Employment
Does investment in broadband infrastructure reduce unemployment? Yes, answer Jayakar and Park, reviewing broadband availability data from the National Broadband Map and unemployment statistics. Their study covers eight states selected according to a variety of demographic and economic criteria to represent a range of comparable states. The level of analysis was the county, and the sample was all 415 counties in the selected states. Jayakar and Pa…
The Baidu Music Settlement
Why did Baidu, China's largest Internet search service, settle a 2011 music copyright infringement case with three large western music publishers when it had prevailed on previous such claims against it? Dong and Jayakar explore four possible reasons for the Baidu settlement, and conclude that while one may not have been enough, all of them taken together likely led to the result, representing a major shift in Baidu's position on music copyrights…
Implementation of BTOP funding for public computing centers
The evolution of telecommunications policy-making
Promoting Universal Broadband through Middle Mile Institutions
Can broadband save declining communities? The National Broadband Plan pays more attention than any previous policy to this question. Professor Jayakar focuses on community-based public and non-profit institutions which serve as anchor institutions or demand aggregators, and which provide job training, digital literacy instruction, continuing education, and entrepreneurship classes. He conducts an analysis based on extensive usage and penetration …
Funding public computing centers
Cross-Sectoral Differences in Intellectual Property Enforcement in Developing Countries
Leading developing countries have recently introduced some reforms in their national intellectual property regimes to harmonize them with international treaties and agreements. However, major differences remain in how these laws are applied to different information industries, and how they are enforced on the ground. While intellectual property law applies to a host of information products ranging from music to computer programs, governments have…
The Economics of American Theatrical Movie Exports
Consistent with predictions of an economic model of international trade in media products, we show that in countries that have relatively high consumer spending on movies-notably the United States-domestically produced movies account for relatively large shares of theater box office receipts. We also find that American-produced movies account for relatively small market shares of the box office in high movie-spending foreign countries. We also fi…
The Competitive Balance of the Italian and American Film Industries
Since the early 1970s, the box-office market shares of Italian films in Italy have greatly diminished, while the shares of American films have comparably increased. Italian films have also lost a once significant market share in the US to American films. Using an economic model of international trade in media products, we argue that one reason for the better performance of the US film industry is that the US has been relatively more successful th…
Broadband Availability and Employment
Does investment in broadband infrastructure reduce unemployment? Yes, answer Jayakar and Park, reviewing broadband availability data from the National Broadband Map and unemployment statistics. Their study covers eight states selected according to a variety of demographic and economic criteria to represent a range of comparable states. The level of analysis was the county, and the sample was all 415 counties in the selected states. Jayakar and Pa…
Funding public computing centers
Remarriage in India
Traditionally, attitudes towards remarriage in India have been characterised by scepticism and suspicion, especially in the case of women. Online remarriage sites promised to open up new possibilities for Indians seeking remarriage. A study of self-presentation strategies adopted by men and women in their online profiles posted on a popular remarriage site shows that while the new technology may have made it easier for divorced and widowed indivi…
Promoting Broadband and ICT Access for Disabled Persons
Despite the promise of broadband to improve the lives of persons with disabilities, there are wide disparities in access and usage between disabled and nondisabled populations. This article examines ten case studies of policies and programs promoting ICT and broadband access for persons with disabilities in the leading economies of the Asia-Pacific region, in order to identify factors behind programs that succeed on the basis of effectiveness and…
Promoting Universal Broadband through Middle Mile Institutions
Can broadband save declining communities? The National Broadband Plan pays more attention than any previous policy to this question. Professor Jayakar focuses on community-based public and non-profit institutions which serve as anchor institutions or demand aggregators, and which provide job training, digital literacy instruction, continuing education, and entrepreneurship classes. He conducts an analysis based on extensive usage and penetration …
The Competitive Balance of the Italian and American Film Industries
Since the early 1970s, the box-office market shares of Italian films in Italy have greatly diminished, while the shares of American films have comparably increased. Italian films have also lost a once significant market share in the US to American films. Using an economic model of international trade in media products, we argue that one reason for the better performance of the US film industry is that the US has been relatively more successful th…
The Economics of American Theatrical Movie Exports
Consistent with predictions of an economic model of international trade in media products, we show that in countries that have relatively high consumer spending on movies-notably the United States-domestically produced movies account for relatively large shares of theater box office receipts. We also find that American-produced movies account for relatively small market shares of the box office in high movie-spending foreign countries. We also fi…
The Competitive Balance of the Italian and American Film Industries
Since the early 1970s, the box-office market shares of Italian films in Italy have greatly diminished, while the shares of American films have comparably increased. Italian films have also lost a once significant market share in the US to American films. Using an economic model of international trade in media products, we argue that one reason for the better performance of the US film industry is that the US has been relatively more successful th…
Cross-Sectoral Differences in Intellectual Property Enforcement in Developing Countries
Leading developing countries have recently introduced some reforms in their national intellectual property regimes to harmonize them with international treaties and agreements. However, major differences remain in how these laws are applied to different information industries, and how they are enforced on the ground. While intellectual property law applies to a host of information products ranging from music to computer programs, governments have…
Promoting Universal Broadband through Middle Mile Institutions
Can broadband save declining communities? The National Broadband Plan pays more attention than any previous policy to this question. Professor Jayakar focuses on community-based public and non-profit institutions which serve as anchor institutions or demand aggregators, and which provide job training, digital literacy instruction, continuing education, and entrepreneurship classes. He conducts an analysis based on extensive usage and penetration …
Funding public computing centers
The evolution of telecommunications policy-making
Broadband Availability and Employment
Does investment in broadband infrastructure reduce unemployment? Yes, answer Jayakar and Park, reviewing broadband availability data from the National Broadband Map and unemployment statistics. Their study covers eight states selected according to a variety of demographic and economic criteria to represent a range of comparable states. The level of analysis was the county, and the sample was all 415 counties in the selected states. Jayakar and Pa…
The Baidu Music Settlement
Why did Baidu, China's largest Internet search service, settle a 2011 music copyright infringement case with three large western music publishers when it had prevailed on previous such claims against it? Dong and Jayakar explore four possible reasons for the Baidu settlement, and conclude that while one may not have been enough, all of them taken together likely led to the result, representing a major shift in Baidu's position on music copyrights…
Implementation of BTOP funding for public computing centers
The Race between the Dragon and the Elephant
Some 134 national broadband plans are now in place around the world. Opinions are divided regarding the role of government in broadband markets: should the government act as an 'enabler' or as the 'rule-maker'? In this context, this article analyses the ambitious national broadband plans recently announced by China and India, two rising economic powerhouses. Traditionally, China's telecommunications development has been driven by investments from…
The Dynamics of Spectrum Management
At a trade conference in March 2015, Ulf Ewaldsson, chief technology officer at Ericsson, stated with only a little exaggeration that the electromagnetic spectrum in the near future will be more valuable than oil. Though rapacious battles for black gold may be a thing of the past, Ewaldsson's evocation of a new no-holds-barred struggle for control of the spectrum does not seem so outlandish, given the burgeoning demand for mobile connectivity exp…
Promoting Broadband and ICT Access for Disabled Persons
Despite the promise of broadband to improve the lives of persons with disabilities, there are wide disparities in access and usage between disabled and nondisabled populations. This article examines ten case studies of policies and programs promoting ICT and broadband access for persons with disabilities in the leading economies of the Asia-Pacific region, in order to identify factors behind programs that succeed on the basis of effectiveness and…
Networking China
The phenomenal growth of the Chinese economy, and especially its information technology and communications sectors, has attracted a steady stream of scholarly and trade press publications over the last several years. But few authors have come to grips with the ramifications of the unprecedented global economic crisis of 2008 and its impact on Chinese policymakers and industry leaders as well as Professor Yu Hong does in her new book, Networking C…
Universal Broadband
Efforts to encourage universal access to information and communication technologies have run into the problem that some individuals, for reasons of affordability, lack of awareness or preference, continue to be without subscriptions. This article examines the arguments commonly put forward in support of promoting broadband access, to determine whether they can justify universalizing access. It examines the ethical limits of government actions tha…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This essay is an introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Information Policy (JIP) on the workshop titled “Broadband Research in a Changing World” that met at the American University Washington College of Law, on September 10, 2017. It provides an overview of the multistage process that resulted in the September 10 workshop, introduces the two articles included in the special issue, and summarizes the views and opinions of workshop par…
Remarriage in India
Traditionally, attitudes towards remarriage in India have been characterised by scepticism and suspicion, especially in the case of women. Online remarriage sites promised to open up new possibilities for Indians seeking remarriage. A study of self-presentation strategies adopted by men and women in their online profiles posted on a popular remarriage site shows that while the new technology may have made it easier for divorced and widowed indivi…
Emergence of OTT Video and the Production Expenditures of Established Audiovisual Producers
This paper examines the audiovisual programming and production expenditures of leading US media distributors, in the context of the market entry of Over-The-Top content distributors such as Netflix. Using data from the annual SEC filings of publicly traded audiovisual production companies over 2008–2017, it seeks to provide insights into how production expenditures figure as part of a competitive strategy in the context of new media growth. The r…
Impact of free trade agreements on Internet domain name arbitration cases
This study examined whether the presence of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and a foreign country significantly affected the outcomes of Internet domain name dispute arbitration cases, conducted within the framework of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Data were collected for 2797 arbitration cases filed during the 2001–2019 period from ten countries, five with US FTAs and five without. Logistic regression analy…
Learning from the neighbors
Same goal, different paths
Political science (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (10 works) · Broadband (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Telecommunications (7 works) · China (5 works)