Peter McLay presented As the Lights Go Down ...Under Investment in Generating Capacity in a Deregulated Electricity Market at an ISCR seminar in March 2005.
Dave Heatley recently presented at the 5th Annual Regulatory Evolution Summit held in Wellington on 30 March 2011. A copy of his presentation can be downloaded.
Slides by Professor Neil Quigley presented at the Auckland seminar Calculating the Cost of Capital: A Revisionists' Appraisal are available for download here.
Margaret Beardow presented Changing Attitudes to Regulation: International Evidence at the Contemporary Issues in Regulatory Theory and Practice half day workshop in Wellington in March 2005.
Internationally, there has been a steady increase in the number of countries instigating charity regulation. Public interest theory suggests that regulation increases organisational transparency, protects (or encourages) ...
If the mooted takeover of TelstraClear (TCL) by Vodafone is to go ahead it will be the most significant non-regulatory structural change in the New Zealand telecommunications marketplace since the merger of TelstraSaturn ...
Competition policy is typically intended to protect competition where workable competition is possible. Conversely regulation can either preclude competition or can act as a substitute for competition when workable ...
Allocative and productive efficiency are static concepts in the sense that they relate to welfare at a point in time. Allocative and productive efficiency reflect the outcome at a single point in time of resource allocation ...
In September 2005 the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) released a document (TheWeighted Average Cost of Capital for Electricity Lines Businesses by Dr Martin Lally referred to as LINES hereafter) that estimates a ...
How can the state regulate the firms it also runs? Professor Cambini presents recent evidence based on EU utilities and telecom companies showing the interplay between independent regulation, ownership and political ...
Using an efficiency-based framework this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific ...
Neil Quigley presented Governance and Regulatory Decision-Making at the Commerce Commission at the Contemporary Issues in Regulatory Theory and Practice half day workshop held in Wellington in March 2005.
How can financial system stability best be achieved? By reliance on market discipline? Or by imposing a complex system of official supervision? This seminar outlines the costs and benefits of these two approaches and ...
Attitudes towards the proper form of organisation and regulation of the electricity sector have shifted several times over the past two decades. These shifts include a wave of liberalisation that encompassed many regions ...
Graeme Guthrie presented Incentive Regulation: Asset Valuation and Investment in Advance at the Contemporary Issues in Regulatory Theory and Practice half day workshop held in Wellington in March 2005.