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.

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.

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...

Professor Michael Katz presented Sender or Receiver: Who should pay to Exchange an Electronic Messages? at an ISCR seminar in February 2005.

In September 2005 the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) released a document (TheWeighted Average Cost of Capital for Electricity Lines Businesses by Dr Martin Lally referred to as LINES hereafter) that estimates a weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for New Zealand electricity lines...

The purpose of this report is to review the contemporary history of the meat packing industry and particularly the role of cooperatives and investor-owned firms in its development. The report that follows is divided into three parts. Part One reports briefly the contemporary history of the meat...