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The Tale of Two TELCO Markets: Comparing Finland and New Zealand

Howell, Bronwyn (2007)

Bronwyn Howell Presented The Tale of Two TELCO Markets: Comparing Finland and New Zealand at the Helsinki University of Technology on the 4th of May 2007
Taxation Treatment of Information Service Provision

Howell, Bronwyn (2000)

The business of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) requires labour computers and (typically leased) bandwidth. All these elements are generally competitively available both within countries and internationally. The fact ...
Techniques for Estimating the Fiscal Costs and Risks of Long-term Output-based Payments

Boyle, Glenn; Irwin, Tim (2005)

Long-term commitments to make output-based payments for infrastructure can encourage private investors to provide socially valuable services. Making good decisions about such commitments is difficult however unless the ...
Telecommunications in New Zealand:Regulating for Infrastructure Competition Reality, 12 July 2013

Howell, Bronwyn; Haucap, Justus; Nicholls, Rob; Glass, Hayden; Abbott, Chris (2013)

In February, Communications minister Amy Adams brought forward the planned review of the regulatory arrangements for New Zealand's telecommunications sector. The move was prompted by emerging tensions between the Commerce ...
Telecommunications Market Evolution in Finland and New Zealand: Unbundling the Differences

Manisha Sangekar; Howell, Bronwyn (2008)

Finland and New Zealand are two countries with many geographic social demographic and historic similarities. Their telecommunications markets also demonstrate many superficial similarities. However beneath the superficial ...
Telecommunications: Presentation to OECD and African Development Bank by Bronwyn Howell

Howell, Bronwyn (2010)

Bronwyn Howell was recently invited to participate in an experts forum on Telecommunications Open Access Regulation by the OECD and African Development Bank.Whilst the experts were encouraged generally by the discussion ...
Telecommunications Usage in New Zealand: 1993-2003

Howell, Bronwyn; Obren, Mark (2003)

This report suggests that the telecommunications market in New Zealand is surprisingly mature. We infer that the potential for growth is limited. There has been negligible growth in any of the number of fixed lines either ...
A Theoretical Analysis of Special Safeguards (SSG)

Stiegert, Kyle (2010)

Special safeguards (SSG) sanctioned tariffs that are triggered when a minimum import level is reached emerged as part of the unique and complex WTO Agreement of Agriculture (AA). Unlike more conventional safeguard measures ...
The Theory and Practice of Privatisation

Evans, Lewis (1998)

In this paper the arguments for privatisation are reviewed in some depth. Forcompetitive markets the view of Balladur (1997 54) that "The state has no legitimate grounds for assuming control over business in the competitive ...
The Theory of the Firm: New Insights on Cooperatives and Non Profit Organisisations

Howell, Bronwyn (2012)

Bronwyn Howell presented 'The Theory of the Firm: New Insights on Cooperatives and Non Profit Organisisations' at the LEANZ Study Day, Wellington June 2012.
Thresholds for the Scrutiny of Mergers and the Problem of Joint Dominance

Quigley, Neil; Evans, Lewis; Hughes, Patrick (1999)

In this Report we consider:1. How the potential for tacit and explicit collusion associated with joint dominance can best be assessed in merger applications.2. Whether the inclusion in section 47 of the Commerce Act of the ...
Trade Reform in New Zealand: Unilateralism at Work

Evans, Lewis; Richardson, Martin (2002)

The aim of this paper is to consider the political forces behind these tradereforms with an eye towards explaining the political success of the unilateral approach. We seek to provide some answers to the following sorts ...
Translog Cost Function Estimation: Banking Efficiency

Daglish, Toby; Robertson, Oliver; Tripe, David; Weill, Laurent (2015)

This paper examines the selection of data source and econometric technique for studies of banking efficiency using translog cost functions. We examine the use of Seemingly Unrelated Regression estimation for a cost function, ...
Twelve Months On: Blacking out through Reforming the Unreformable?

Hancock, John (2004)

John Hancock, CGNZ, presented Twelve Months On: Blacking out through Reforming the Unreformable? contrasting international perspectives on the electricity blackouts experienced in London, Italy and New York and how electricity ...
The Tyranny of Distance Prevails: HTTP protocol latency and returns to fast fibre internet access network deployment in remote economies

Howell, Bronwyn; Obren, Mark (2010)

As public policies seek to advance deployment of enhanced broadband infrastructure as a means of acquiring economic advantage the issue has arisen of the extent that additional economic performance accrues from increases ...
The Tyranny of Distrance Prevails: Presentation

Howell, Bronwyn (2011)

Bronwyn Howell recently attended the International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific conference held in Taipei Taiwan on 26-28 June 2011. A copy of her presentation is attached.
UFBI 2.0: Revised separation boundaries may partially address pricing and uptake limitations in New Zealand fibre broadband model, but significant competition policy problems remain

Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn (2010)

On July 1 2010 the Minister of Communications Steven Joyce announced fundamental changes to the structure and regulation of the New Zealand Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative. The changes were deemed necessary ...
UFBI 2.0: Revised separation boundaries may partially address pricing and uptake limitations in New Zealand fibre broadband model, but significant competition policy problems remain

Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn (2010)

On July 1 2010, the Minister of Communications Steven Joyce announced fundamental changes to the structure and regulation of the New Zealand Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative. The changes were deemed necessary ...
The Ultimatum Game: Optimal Strategies without Fairness

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

The Ultimatum game is simple and this facilitates its use in the study of predictions of game theory. Experimental evidence suggests that it doesnot predict individual behavior well unless individuals gain welfarefrom ...
Ultrafast Broadband: Feeding a Need for Speed or Funding a Fibre Arms Race?

Howell, Bronwyn (2011)

Bronwyn Howell presents Ultrafast Broadband: Feeding a Need for Speed or Funding a Fibre Arms Race? at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE) on 15 September 2011.