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Genetically Modified Organisms and Liability: What are the Issues?

Hutton, Stephen (2004)

This paper examines the main economic issues surrounding liability for genetically modified organisms with focus on the New Zealand situation and liability debate and in particular the interaction between liability and regulation.
Globalization and Financial Regulation

Young, Leslie (1999)

There has been no shortage of villains in the financial crisis which began in Asia and has now encompassed all major emerging markets: bankers regulators hedge funds and the IMF have all been excoriated for incompetence ...
{GOD IS [GREAT} WALL STREET]

Young, Leslie (2008)

Arab and Chinese Sovereign Wealth Funds are recapitalizing international banks crippled by the subprime crisis. This reflects long-term changes in the international economy that are leading globalization to self-destruct. ...
A Good Price for the Family Tin? Rail Privatisation in New Zealand in the light of Wider Railway and Network Industry Experience

Heatley, David (2011)

When New Zealand's railway system was privatised in 1993 it was as one entity thus avoiding any issues arising from the 'separation of wheel and rail'. Yet this approach failed in time in that in 2003 the New Zealand ...
Governance and Regulatory Decision-Making at the Commerce Commission

Quigley, Neil (2005)

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.
Governance of the Internet: Emerging Issues

Evans, Lewis; de Boer, David Boles; Howell, Bronwyn (2000)

The Internet and associated networks and devices are intruding throughout social and commercial activity. They are improving information exchange storage and utilisation to an extent that is re-shaping the structure and ...
Government Investment and Broadband Market Evolution in the Antipodes

Howell, Bronwyn (2011)

Presentation by Bronwyn Howell to OPTA Den Haag on 13 September 2011.
Government Regulation and Market Competition in the Broadband Market in Japan

Sugaya, Minoru (2012)

View the presentation by Professor Minoru Sugaya, Keio University, Japan at the ISCR lunchtime seminar on 29 March 2012.
Governments in the Telco Business: Prudental Investors or Bureaucratic Intruders?

Howell, Bronwyn (2010)

Governments around the world are attempting to 'invest' in infrastructure for the perceived 'future needs' of their nations. Locally New Zealand and Australian governments have spent the past thirty years corporatising and ...
Grid Characteristics and the Interface Between Competition and Regulation Policies

Meade, Richard (2008)

This presentation explores the demarcation of this boundary and how it is affected by grid characteristics as a first step towards an ongoing comparative analysis of the institutional dynamics of competition and regulation ...
Guaranteeing that the Lights Always Come on - What is it Really Worth?

de, Michiel Nooij (2006)

Power outages are inconvenient and costly. Reducing the number of these is often possible but doing so itself creates costs that are eventually borne by electricity users. This seminar describes how optimal investment in ...
Has Local Loop Unbundling Increased New Zealand's Broadband Uptake?

Howell, Bronwyn (2009)

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues. This second issue looks at local loop unbundling and whether this has increased New Zealand's broadband uptake.
Health Sector Failures in New Zealand: Act of God, Act of Man or Inadequacies in Control Design

Howell, Bronwyn (2001)

While the Cartwright Duffy and Cull inquiries investigated in some detail the health system processes that led to the specific instances of malpractice that prejudiced the health states of the main 'whistleblowers' a key ...
Hedging the Value of Waiting

Boyle, Glenn; Guthrie, Graeme (2006)

We analyze the optimal hedging policy of a firm that has flexibility in the timing of investment. Conventional wisdom suggests that hedging adds value by alleviating the underinvestment problem associated with capital ...
High Frequency Electricity Spot Price Dynamics: An Intra-day Markets Approach

Guthrie, Graeme; Videbeck, Steen (2002)

In this paper we develop a new approach to understanding the behavior of high frequency electricity spot prices. It treats electricity delivered at different times of the day as different commodities while recognizing that ...
Historical and Siegel Estimates of the Market Risk Premium in New Zealand

Marsden, Alastair (2005)

Slides by Associate Professor Alastair Marsden of the Business School at the University of Auckland, presented Historical and Siegel Estimates of the Market Risk Premium in New Zealand at the half-day Regulatory Cost of ...
The History and Future of Rail in New Zealand

Heatley, David (2009)

Did the 2002-08 re-nationalisation of New Zealand railways represent the end of a failed experiment in the privatisation of essential infrastructure and herald the renaissance of socially-desirable environmentally-friendly ...
Houses, Horses and Halls of Learning: Do Financial Incentives Matter?

Boyle, Glenn (2007)

Slides presented by Glenn Boyle as part of the Treasury Guest Lecture Series are available for download here.
How can the Invisible Hand Strengthen Prudential Supervision?

J, Richard. Herring (2006)

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 ...
How to get from Avalon to Berhampore: commuting and car ownership decisions in Wellington, NZ' presented by Toby Daglish on 15 May 2013

Daglish, Toby (2013)

Commuting decisions have major implications for government departments, city and regional councils, car dealers, petrol stations, and household pocket books. We use the NZ Household Travel Survey to explore the decisions ...