PAE areas of expertise include:

• Telecommunications Economics
• Economics of Networks
• Economics and Industrial Organization
• Forward-Looking (FL) Economic Costs
• Tops-Down Costs with FL Adjustments
• Bottoms-Up Engineering Costs
• Cost Models
• Custom Bids, Multipart Pricing, Geographic De-averaging
• Bundling
• Regulatory Strategy and Regulatory Reform Evaluation
• Interconnection, Unbundling, and Resale
• Reciprocal Compensation
• Universal Service Mechanisms
• Imputation and Efficient Components Pricing
• Cross-Subsidy, Competitive Standards and Safeguards
• Bypass and Factor Substitution
• Expert Testimony and Litigation Support
• Economic Damage Evaluation
• Training and Education
• Land-Line, Mobile, and Packet-Based Networks

While the majority of PAE's work is in telecommunications, research and experience exist in electric power and other multiservice industries facing rapidly changing technology and complex regulations.