Trading Funds


Trading funds research

 

As part of the Power of Information Taskforce, we are lending a hand with the review of trading funds.  As part of this work we are assembling a short list of all the published research we have found. Please contact us with any new sources of information at poi@cabinet-office.gov.uk.

 

General research

The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler - www.benkler.org

 

Data pricing - Efficient market

Theoretical papers

Ramsay pricing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_problem

Competition, consumer welfare, and the social cost of monopoly - Lee and Brown, 1995 - http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cd/d15a/d1528.pdf

Monopoly Pricing Structures with Imperfect Discrimination - Hayne E. Leland and Robert A. Meyer, 1976 - http://www.jstor.org/pss/3003266 [subscription needed]

 

Papers

CUPI report & government response- http://www.berr.gov.uk/bbf/competition/market-studies/public-information/page39978.html

Cambridge Report - http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file45136.pdf

House of Commons - Communities and Local Government Committee - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmcomloc/268/268.pdf

Government response to the House of Commons - http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmcomloc/516/516.pdf

The 'New' Innovation Theory: Boldrin and Levine and Quah - Rufus Pollock - http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/boldrin_levine_quah.html

Cross Cutting review of the knowledge economy - HM Treasury, 2000 - http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spending_review/spending_review_2000/associated_documents/spend_sr00_ad_ccrcontents.cfm

Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic and Social D- OECD - http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu/Final_Report_2003.pdf

 

Presentations

Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Government Information Policies and their Economic Impacts - Peter Weiss, US Weather Service - http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/STISymposium_Weiss.ppt#1

Funding and utilisation of public reference data - Morten Lind, KMS-DK - http://www.intermin.fi/vrk/files.nsf/files/EF3EB098B37C1D20C22574510030FC44/$file/Danmark_Funding_Reference_data_01v.ppt

Measuring the social and economic cost and benefits - Uhlir, Sharif and Merz - http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/23/42/40170933.ppt

  

Legislative constraints

EU directive on access to Pubilc sector information - http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/directive/psi_directive_en.pdf

APPSI draft response - http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/directive/psi_directive_en.pdf

INSPIRE directive - http://inspire.jrc.it/directive/l_10820070425en00010014.pdf

 

Quality of Information

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Business Efficiency 

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Regulation

Benchmarking review of Postwatch and Energywatch - NAO, BERR and HMT - http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file25231.pdf

Concurrent competition powers in Sectoral regulation - BERR and HMT - http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file29454.pdf