Bronwyn Howell and Dave Heatley's presentation at the recent Internet New Zealand Ultrafast Broadband Workshop held in Wellington on 19 May 2010.

The Australian and New Zealand governments have both decided that substantial government investment is required to accelerate the deployment of new nationwide fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. This paper examines the two proposals in light of the crucial role of price discrimination in enabling...

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues. This first issue relates to penalties when the trains do not run to schedule.

The economic purpose of an Overseas Investment Act (OIA) should be to enable foreign investment that has a positive (or at least non-negative) impact on a country's economic performance and to prevent investments which will likely have detrimental net effects. An examination of both the content...

The current mobile ecosystem is best understood in terms of a monopolistic competition model characterised by heterogeneous producers providing a range of differentiated products for consumers with heterogeneous preferences. Product differentiation offers producers some market power ultimately...

This submission was prepared as a response to the Ministry of Economic Development's discussion document Regulatory Implications of Structural Separation.

In January 2010 the New Zealand Government introduced a continuous disclosure regime for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) modelled on the regime applying to publicly-listed companies (PLCs). The government sees continuous disclosure increasing the transparency of SOEs and that this will lead to...

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues.

When New Zealand's railway system was privatised in 1993 it was as one entity thus avoiding any issues arising from the 'separation of wheel and rail'. Yet this approach failed in time in that in 2003 the New Zealand Government had to come in and purchase the track in order to bail out the...