Paul Rappoport

Paul N. Rappoport is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has over 25 years of experience in data analysis, modeling and statistical assessment, with a specialization in telecommunications demand analysis. Dr. Rappoport has written extensively on telecom demand models. His current research interests include: modeling consumers’ willingness to pay; the construction of internet metrics; assessing the Digital Divide; specifying and modeling business broadband; forecasting internet demand and measuring the nature of network externalities. He is a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Tele-Information. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University in 1974.