Demand for communications services -- insights and perspectives : essays in honor of Lester D. Taylor

Overview: The Future of Telecommunications, media, and technology.- Prologue I: Research Demands on Demand Research.- Prologue II: Lester Taylor's Insights.- Advances in Theory.- Regression with a Two-Dimensional Dependent Variable.- Piecewise Linear L1 Modeling.- Empirical Applications: Information and Communication Technologies.- "Over the Top:" Has Technological Change Radically Altered the Prospects for Traditional Media?.- Forecasting Video Cord-Cutting: The Bypass of Traditional Pay Television.- Blended Traditional and Virtual Seller Market Entry and Performance.- How Important Is the Media and Content Sector to the European Economy?.- Product Differences and e-Purchasing: An Empirical Study in Spain.- Forecasting the Demand for Business Communications Services.- Residential Demand for Wireless Telephony.- Empirical Applications: Other Areas.- Pricing and Maximizing Profit within Corporations.- Avalanche Forecasting: Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees.- Evidenced Based Policy Applications.- Universal Rural Broadband: Economics and Policy.- Who Values the Media?.- A Systems Estimation Approach to Cost, Schedule and Quantity Outcomes.- Conclusion.- Fifty Years of Studying Economics.- Future Research: Where We Go from Here?.- Appendix.- The Contribution of Lester D. Taylor Using Bibliometrics.