Competition is often seen as important for improving investment incentives and consumer welfare particularly in deregulated infrastructure industries like electricity gas water and telecommunications. Richard Meade presents research on how industry structure and competition interact to affect...

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 will likely have detrimental net effects. An examination of both the content...

Richard Meade presented Using Ownership to Resolve Investment and Pricing Issues in Transmission and Distribution in April 2006.

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.

Richard Meade presented Intervention in Electricity Investment: Required, or Self Perpetuating? at an ISCR seminar in December 2005. The book Richard Meade has co-authored with Lewis Evans on the topic, Alternating Currents or Counter Revolution? Contemporary Electricity Reform in New Zealand is...

Professor Glenn Boyle presented One Size Fit All? Investor Protection Regulation in Financial Markets at this seminar in May 2005.