Arlington Economics (AE), founded by economists Thomas Hazlett, David Porter, and Vernon Smith, provides professional expertise in experimental economics, regulatory analysis, telecommunications policy, environmental markets, electricity pricing, mechanism design, mergers and antitrust. Projects undertaken by AE economists span a wide array of challenging issues, applying theory to practical problems. These include the creation of a mechanism to allocate Cassini-Huygens spacecraft resources across rival scientific experiments, analysis of horizontal and vertical integration in cable TV markets, devising radio spectrum reforms for country regulators in Latin America, offering strategic advice to bidders in FCC wireless license auctions, performing an economic evaluation of the XM-Sirius merger, and testing auctions used to allocate pollution permits in the State of Virginia. Clients include firms, governments, trade associations, and NGOs.