Using an efficiency-based framework this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to 2007). The framework considers the productive allocative...

Bronwyn Howell presented Restructuring Primary Heath Care Markets in NZ: Efficiency and Equity Implications of Provider-Insurers at the Australian Conference of Health Economists conference held in Auckland in September 2005.

If the mooted takeover of TelstraClear (TCL) by Vodafone is to go ahead it will be the most significant non-regulatory structural change in the New Zealand telecommunications marketplace since the merger of TelstraSaturn and Clear Communications in December 2001. The merger is a game-changer...

Bronwyn Howell recently presented at the 5th Annual Regulatory Evolution Summit held in Wellington on 30 March 2011.

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

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.

Kevin Counsel and Professor Lewis Evans presented Struggling Upstream: Efficient Water Allocation on the Waitaki River and Elsewhere in Wellington and Auckland in July 2004.

Margaret Beardow presented Changing Attitudes to Regulation: International Evidence at the Contemporary Issues in Regulatory Theory and Practice half day workshop in Wellington in March 2005.

Allocative and productive efficiency are static concepts in the sense that they relate to welfare at a point in time. Allocative and productive efficiency reflect the outcome at a single point in time of resource allocation and production decisions.

Dr Stuart Gillan presented Corporate Governance & Regulation: Panacea or Pandora's Box at an ISCR seminar in May 2006.