Until the late 1980s competition between universities was limited and the allocation of funding by the University Grants Committee created a system that was more akin to central planning than to a competitive market. Following the advice of the Treasury the Labour government of the late 1980s...

This supplement published in March of 2004 discusses:Aspects of a water allocation framework Valuing water in a water market Water allocation under the Waitaki billHow the Waitaki bill fits a desirable framework

The purpose of this paper is to point out the feasibility of joint ventures contracting out of using Courts to resolve disputes and to explain and assess the enforcement of the rules that form the governance of the New Zealand Electricity (spot) Market (NZEM). This market has no basis in...

Number 1 in the monograph series by ISCR. This issue published in July of 2001 has the following articles: Down on the farm is going global Can a large single Co-operative be efficient?The price of milk and the value of capitalThe discipline of open entry and exitWhat does open entry and exit...

Lew Evans presented Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis Under Competition Law: The Gas Enquiry at the Competition Law and Study Institute conference in Wellington in August 2006.

This paper is the first in a symposium of papers that examine the 2009 report by Frank Wolak into the New Zealand electricity market. The Wolak report concluded that there had been a cumulative total of $4.3b (NZD) of overcharging in the New Zealand wholesale market over a period of seven years....

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...

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 competition test proposed above in place of the existing dominance test...

Slides by Lew Evans and Terence Lawrence presented Competition Law in Small Market Economies - Special Application to New Zealand Commentary at the Competition Law and Study Institute conference held in Wellington August 2006.

This supplement was published in May of 2003 and discusses: The Electricity IndustryPrices in the Electricity MarketCentral planning applied to electricity