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The Nature of Services and the Implications for Competition Policy

Karel, Annemieke (2004)

Though 'services' is a very broad concept and any generalisations should be made with caution it is widely acknowledged that services differ from goods in many respects. Analyses of key elements of market structure conduct ...
The NBN Rebooted: Commercial Constructs

Howell, Bronwyn (2013)

Communications Day invited Brownyn Howell to speak recently at The NBN: Rebooted Making Australian Broadband Work two day conference held in Sydney on 18 and 19 November 2013.
Neither the Rock nor the Hard Place: Balancing the Politics and the Economics of Emissions Control

Pezzey, Jack (2005)

Dr Jack Pezzey presented Neither the Rock nor the Hard Place: Balancing the Politics and the Economics of Emissions Control at a seminar in December 2005. Using greenhouse gas control as an example, Dr Pezzey's seminar ...
Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives

Choi, Jay; Kim, Byung-Cheol (2008)

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers (CPs) and their implications for social welfare. We show that the ISP's ...
The New Regulatory Regime for Electricity Lines Businesses: Great Expectations Unfulfilled

Evans, Lewis; Berry, Mark (2008)

A new regulatory regime applying to Electricity Lines Businesses (ELBs) will come into force on 1 April 2009. These reforms are set out in the Commerce Amendment Bill 2008 which passed its Third Reading on 5 September ...
New Zealand Corporate Boards in Transition: Composition, Activity and Incentives Between 1995 and 2010

Ji, Xu (Jane); Boyle, Glenn (2011)

We document describe and interpret changes in New Zealand corporate board characteristics between 1995 and 2010 a period centred around the 2003 introduction of the NZX Corporate Governance Best Practice Code. Unsurprisingly ...
A New Zealand Electricity Market Model: Assessment of the effect of climate change on electricity production and consumption

Evans, Lewis; lu, Yinjia (Andrea); Guthrie, Graeme (2010)

In this paper we introduce a model of an electricity market and use it to explore the effect of climate change on electricity prices and output. It has multiple generation fuels uncertain fuel availability and storage ...
New Zealand's Electricity Lines Companies: An Ownership Analysis

Talosaga, Talosaga; Howell, Bronwyn (2012)

New Zealand's 30 Electricity Lines Businesses (ELBs) combined hold assets with an estimated value of over $8.8 billion (Commerce Commission 2012). The vast majority of analysis of the New Zealand electricity sector has ...
New Zealand's Electricity Lines Companies: An Ownership Analysis

Talosaga, Talosaga; Howell, Bronwyn (2012)
NZ Power - Mainstream or Mad?

Gerritsen, Ben (2013)

The Labour Party and the Greens have made electricity sector restructuring a key plank of their 2014 election campaign. Their proposal to replace New Zealand's wholesale electricity market with a central buyer (known as ...
One Size Fit All? Investor Protection Regulation in Financial Markets

Boyle, Glenn; Meade, Richard (2005)

Professor Glenn Boyle presented One Size Fit All? Investor Protection Regulation in Financial Markets at this seminar in May 2005.
Open Ownership - Not Common Carriage

Alger, Dan (1998)

We consider regulating natural monopolies with open ownership and competitive rules as a substitute for common carriage regulation and illustrate it with an application for natural gas pipelines. A single set of production ...
Optimal discrete hedging in the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model

Daglish, Toby; Neely, Chris (2008)

We present a closed form solution for the optimal hedging strategy in discrete time of an option whose underlying security follows the Heston Stochastic Volatility process. Our Monte Carlo simulations indicate that this ...
Optimal Judicial Sentencing and the Fair Trading Act 1986 - A study of the size of penalties awarded under section 40 of the New Zealand Fair Trading Act 1986

Legge, Jaimie (2001)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of the size of penalties awarded by the courts under the Fair Trading Act 1986. The law and economics theory of optimal penalties provides the theoretical ...
The Optimal Network Contract Under Partial Bypass in Oligopolistic Network Industries

Evans, Lewis; Burnell, Stephen; Yao, Shuntian (1999)

The rapid widespread technological change and concomitant deregulation of network industries has engendered a burgeoning demand for connection between technologically similar as well as technologically dissimilar networks. ...
Options Provided by Storage can Explain High Electricity Prices

Evans, Lewis; Counsell, Kevin; Guthrie, Graeme (2006)

Generators supplying electricity markets are subject to volatile input and output prices and uncertain fuel availability. Price-risk may be hedged to a considerable extent but fuel-risk - water flows in the case of hydro ...
Overseas Investment: is New Zealand 'Open for Business'?

Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn (2010)

The economic purpose of an Overseas Investment Act (OIA) should be to enable foreign investment that has a positive (or at least non-negative) impact on a country's economic performance and to prevent investments which ...
Ownership, Control, Agency and Residual Claims: New Insights on Co-operatives and Non-profit Organisations

Cordery, Carolyn; Howell, Bronwyn (2012)

Carolyn Cordery presented this paper (co-authored with Bronwyn Howell) at the NZ Association for the study of Cooperatives & Mutuals conference held in Wellington 21-22 June 2012.
Ownership vs Regulation in Electricity Reform: The Role of Governance

Meade, Richard (2005)

ISCR Research Principal Richard Meade presented Ownership vs Regulation in Electricity Reform: The Role of Governance at The European Electricity Market 2005 conference held in Lodz, Poland in May.
Ownership vs. Regulation in Electricity Reform: The Role of Governance

Meade, Richard (2005)

Electricity reform typically involves little regard to the possibility that customerownership might substitute for the "protections" of state ownership or for investor ownership under regulatory safeguards where market ...