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Parallel Importation and Service Quality: An Empirical Investigation of Competition between DVDs and Cinemas in New Zealand

Evans, Lewis; Burgess, Matt (2005)

Investigations into the causes and effects of parallel importing have concentrated on price discrimination but arbitrage can also occur on non-price dimensions. Using a natural experiment in the New Zealand film distribution ...
Partial Sale of SOEs - Statism vs Participatory Democracy

Evans, Lewis (2011)

Slide presentation by Lewis Evans to LEANZ members in Auckland on Monday evening 26 September 2011.
Payback Without Apology

Boyle, Glenn; Guthrie, Graeme (2006)

When interest rates are uncertain the net-present-value threshold required to justify an irreversible investment is increasing in the length of a project's payback period. Thus slowpayback projects should face a higher ...
Paying for the Doctors Strike and the Waiting List Cull at the GP's Surgery

Howell, Bronwyn (2006)

Bronwyn Howell presented Paying for the Doctors Strike and the Waiting List Cull at the GP's Surgery at LEANZ in August 2006.
Paying for the Hospital Waiting List Cull at the GP's Surgery: The Changing Locus of Financial Risk-Bearing in New Zealand's Primary Healthcare Sector

Howell, Bronwyn (2006)

In 2002 New Zealand's government-funded primary health care payments were changed from a fee-for-service basis to a capitation basis as part of a change towards a population-based managed care style of primary health care ...
Paying for Urban Water Services: Some Insights from Across the Ditch

Chris Hunt (2007)

Chris Hunt presented Paying for Urban Water Services: Some Insights from Across the Ditch at an ISCR in September 2007
Paying When the Trains Run Late

Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn (2009)

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues. This first issue relates to penalties when the trains do not run to schedule.
Payments, Participants and Network Supply

Wilkinson, Mike (2011)

If New Zealand's EFTPOS networks receive stronger use than similar networks overseas because of differences in price structures what motivations lie behind the structures each has chosen? An analysis of the economic history ...
Pay Peanuts and Get Monkeys? Evidence From Academia

Boyle, Glenn (2006)

This article can be found at: The Berkeley Electronic Press Using some unique data from the New Zealand academic system this paper examines the relationship between worker quality and labour market value in a remuneration ...
Pay Peanuts and Get Monkeys? Evidence from NZ Universities

Boyle, Glenn (2006)

Data constraints mean that relatively little is known about the relationship between pay levels and worker quality but the recently introduced Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) system makes the NZ tertiary sector ...
Pendulous Progression: 20 Years of Telecommunications Regulation in New Zealand

Howell, Bronwyn (2007)

Bronwyn Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulation 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority) in June 2007.
A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand's Telecommunications Regulation 1987-2007

Howell, Bronwyn (2007)

New Zealand was the first country in the OECD to adopt a 'light-handed' approach to telecommunications regulation when in 1987 it eschewed industry-specific regulation for a generic competition law-based approach. The ...
A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulation 1987 -2007

Howell, Bronwyn (2007)

Bronym Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulations 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Telecommunications Regulatory Authority) in Helsinki Finland in May 2007
The Performance Based Research Fund and the Benefits of Competition Between Universities

Quigley, Neil; Evans, Lewis (2006)

Until the late 1980s competition between universities was limited and the allocation of funding by the University Grants Committee created a system that was more akin to central planning than to a competitive market. ...
Planet Skin

Howell, Bronwyn (2006)

Sue Sage picked up her coffee in one hand and a beauty therapy magazine in the other and headed to her office at the hub of her busy salon Planet Skin. But this was not going to be an ordinary coffee break. Sue had just ...
Policy Considerations for the New Zealand Natural Gas Industry

Stanford Levin; Duncan, Alfred (2011)

Professor Stanford Levin and Alfred Duncan undertake a study of the natural gas industry in New Zealand at a time when the two industry regulators are undertaking regulatory initiatives.The Commerce Commission is in the ...
Policy Watch: Governments at the Bidding Table

Van, Johannes Biesebroeck (2008)

While governments the world over have been debating with how much vigour to pursue foreign investment projects the New Zealand government has recently indicated a reduced appetite for this activity. It has maintained even ...
Policy Watch: Governments at the Bidding Table

Van, Johannes Biesebroeck (2008)

Should the Wellington City Council be in the business of paying David Beckham to play soccer? What was the government thinking when it offered New Line Cinema a tax break worth $300-400 million to shoot the Lords of the ...
The Political Economy of Six O'clock Closing

Mulcare, Tim (1999)

Public bars in New Zealand traded from nine o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m. from Monday to Saturday between 1917 and 1967 despite the fact that demand was concentrated on five out of six trading days in the hour before ...
Political Partisanship and Corporate Performance

Durnev, Art; Garfinkel, Jon; Molchanov, Sasha (2012)

We present evidence that the political orientation of the government (left vs. right) affects corporate performance. We hypothesize that companies within labour-intensive industries polluting industries industries with ...