This article aims to assess barriers to service provision in the banking and telecom sectors of four Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, and the impact of these barriers on firm performance. Our methodology involves the computation of aggregate and modal trade restrictiveness indices...

This paper analyzes competition between two Internet service providers (ISPs), either or both of which may choose to offer multiple service classes. In the model analyzed, a social planner who maximizes the total benefit from network usage and a profit maximizing monopolist will both form...

Over the past few years, much attention has been given to the concept of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and its implementation by various companies as a key strategy to regain or improve their competitive edge in the marketplace. BPR is a new business concept for organizational review that...

This is the first of a two-part Special Issue. It contains four out of 104 papers presented at the 19th Nordic Logistics Research Network (NOFOMA) conference, arranged by the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2007. Adjacent to NOFOMA were the Nordlog Doctoral Workshop (Getting...

Competition has a huge influence on customer buying behaviour and will impact on the optimal price that companies should charge for goods or services. To date, many dynamic pricing models have not modelled competition explicitly. In this paper, we introduce pricing strategies that maximize...

Applied Game Theory has been criticised for not being able to model real decision making situations. A game's sensitive nature and the difficultly in determining the utility payoff functions make it hard for a decision maker to rely upon any game theoretic results. Therefore the models tend to...

This thesis uses the techniques of economic theory to examine the behaviour ofagents in new marketplaces that have formed on the Internet. It is divided intothree chapters, each focusing upon a different aspect of market behaviour. I beginin chapter 2 by building a simultaneous, unit demand,...

This thesis investigates the development of capabilities by incumbent telecommunications operators in the context of the transition to the Next Generation Network (NGN). In particular, it examines the case of BT in the UK, as a large-scale first mover in this transition. The research is based on...