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...

How can financial system stability best be achieved? By reliance on market discipline? Or by imposing a complex system of official supervision? This seminar outlines the costs and benefits of these two approaches and discusses systems that potentially incorporate the best features of...

Professor Stanford Levin and Alfred Duncan undertake a study of the natural gas industry in New Zealand at a time when the two industry regulators are undertaking regulatory initiatives.The Commerce Commission is in the midst of setting their default price-quality regulatory framework that will...

Slides by Professor Neil Quigley presented at the Auckland seminar Calculating the Cost of Capital: A Revisionists' Appraisal are available for download here.

Richard Meade presented Continuous Disclosure: Some Background at the Continuous Disclosure workshop held in June 2006.

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.

Peter McLay presented As the Lights Go Down ...Under Investment in Generating Capacity in a Deregulated Electricity Market at an ISCR seminar in March 2005.