Computing abuse related damages in the case of new entry: An illustration for the Directory Enquiry Services market

A number of European countries, among which the UK and Spain, have opened up their Directory Enquiry Services (DQs, or 118AB) market to competition. We analyse the Spanish case, where both local and foreign firms challenged the incumbent as of April 2003. We argue that the incumbent had the ability to abuse its dominant position, and that it was a perfectly rational strategy. In short,the incumbent raised its rivals' costs directly by providing an inferior quality version of the (essential) input, namely the incumbent's subscribers' database. We illustrate how it is possible to quantify the effect of abuse in situation were the entrant has no previous history in the market. To do this, we use the UK experience to construct the relevant counterfactual, that is the "but for abuse" scenario. After controlling for relative prices and advertising intensity, we find that one of the foreign entrants achieved a Spanish market share of only half of what it would have been in the absence of abuse.

Report on the Management and Administrative Computing Initiative - Vol II

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE INITIATIVE ON MANAGEMENT A~D ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING VOLUME II - REFERENCE MANUAL

REPORT ON THE INITIATIVE ON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING VOLUME II

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE INITIATIVE ON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING VOLUME II - REFERENCE MANUAL

Cloud computing for research - final report

Curtis+Cartwright Consulting Ltd, working with the University of Surrey and Professor Charles Oppenheim, has been commissioned by Jisc to investigate Cloud Computing for Research. This document is the final report, and is accompanied by a briefing paper which provides advice targeted at researchers.

Review of the environmental and organisational implications of cloud computing in higher and further education

The review of the environmental and organisational implications of cloud computing in higher and further education was commissioned by Jisc as part of its green ICT programme.

Astrophysics and Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC)

Supporting presentation slides to accompany the Janet network end to end performance initiative workshop

Photographic database development of Nigerian fisheries: a complementary source of information documentation

The paper traces the history of the different documentation media used for information dissemination. Such early media are clay tablets, papyrus, and vellum or parchment codex. The invention of printing however revolutionized the information industry, enabling the production of books in multiple copies. Photography came into documentation mainly to preserve rare materials and those that easily deteriorate. This paper reports the efforts of National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research (NIFFR) and Kainji Lake Fisheries Promotion Project (KLFPPP), Nigeria, to develop an Object Oriented Database (OOD) using photographs. The photographs are stored in digitized form on commercial computers, using the program ACDSee 32 for classification, description and retrieval. Specifically the paper focuses on photographs in fisheries as visual communication and expression. Presently, the database contains photo documents about the following aspects of Kainji Lake fisheries: fishing gears and crafts, fish preservation methods