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.

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...

Professor Lewis Evans presented The Required Rate of Return with Sunk Investments at the ISCR forum, The Cost of Capital for the Regulated Firm in August 2003. Two papers associated with this presentation are available for through these links: 'Risk, Price Regulation and Irreversible Investment'...

Professor Lewis Evans presented Sunk Investments, Regulation and the Cost of Capital at an ISCR Auckland seminar: Calculating the Cost of Capital: A Revisionists' Appraisal.

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.

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...