On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
An important policy debate, particularly in the digital economy, surrounds the role data plays in competition. However, attempts to provide a coherent economic analysis have been stymied by the fact that data has many forms and many different uses. We develop general conditions under which the accumulation of data by firms is pro- or anti-competitive, and use these conditions to examine the competitive effects of data in applications such as targeted advertising, product personalisation, algorithmic recommendations, and price discrimination. We also apply this framework to study policy issues such as the control of mergers where data changes hands, the design of privacy policy, and the implications of data for long-run market dynamics.
