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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 ...
How to Regulate Electricity Companies?

Beardow, Margaret (2003)

Margeret Beardow presented, The cost structure of electricity lines businesses and performance competitive pressures in March 2003 at an ISCR half day seminar.
Human Capital and Popular Investment Advice

Boyle, Glenn; Guthrie, Graeme (2005)

Popular investment advice recommends that the stock/bond and stock/wealth ratios should rise with investor risk tolerance and investment horizon respectively prescriptions that are difficult to reconcile with the simple ...
Identifying the Characteristics of a Good Tax System in the 21st Century: The Mirrlees Review

Gammie, Malcolm (2008)

Significant changes in the international economic and political environment are forcing countries everywhere to review the design of their tax system and the impact of taxes on national economic performance. The Mirrlees ...
If Electricity Liberalisation Is Working, Then Why Do So Many People Hate It?', presented by Prof James Bushnell 7 August 2013

Bushnell, James (2013)

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 ...
The Impact of Climate Change Policy on Forest Value and Dairy Conversion Rates

Meade, Richard (2006)

The conversion of forest land into dairy farms has recently increased worsening New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Climate change policies can affect both forest value and optimal forest ...
The Impact of Disclosure Reform on the NZX's Financial Information Environment

Haung, Meng; Marsden, Alastair; Poskitt, Russell (2006)

This study investigates the impact of amendments to the New Zealand Exchange's listing rules and the Securities Markets Act 1988 enacted in December 2002. These reforms provided statutory backing for a continuous disclosure ...
The Impact of Regulation on the Firm's Cost of Capital

Lally, Martin (2003)

Dr Martin Lally presented The Impact of Regulation on the Firm's Cost of Capital at the ISCR forum, The Cost of Capital for the Regulated Firm in August 2003
The Impact of the Securities Market Amendment Act 2002 on Insider Trading in New Zealand

Gilbert, Aaron; Tourani-Rad, Alireza; Wisniewski, Tomasz Piotr (2005)

Insider trading has a number of harmful effects that can result in financial market distortions reducing its efficient functioning. Much of this harm comes from the large profits insiders expropriate from small investors ...
Importance and Evolution of Forward Markets in Electricity

Quilkey, Paul (2003)

Paul Quilkey presented, Importance and Evolution of forward markets in electricity at an ISCR half day seminar.
Incentive Regulation: Asset Valuation and Investment in Advance

Guthrie, Graeme (2005)

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.
Incentive Regulation of Prices when Costs are Sunk

Evans, Lewis; Guthrie, Graeme (2006)

We present a model featuring irreversible investment uncertain future demand and capital prices and a regulator who sets the firm's output price at discrete intervals. Using this model we derive a closed-form solution for ...