Bronym Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulations 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Telecommunications Regulatory Authority) in Helsinki Finland in May 2007

Paul Quilkey presented, Importance and Evolution of forward markets in electricity at an ISCR half day seminar.

Cooperatives and mutual organisational forms arise for reasons which include contracting problems between parties. Economic literature suggests a variety of allocated inefficiencies implied by these forms that largely have their origins in poor investment decisions. We demonstrate that a...

New Zealand benefits from a relative abundance of water. However both geographically and temporally New Zealand's water resources are unevenly distributed. Water markets have been promoted as a means of efficiently reallocating water amidst growing demands. The effectiveness of a particular...

Slides presented by Glenn Boyle as part of the Treasury Guest Lecture Series are available for download here.

Mandatory structural separation of networks from retail operations is increasingly becoming a feature of telecommunications markets - as evidenced in the 2007 legislation ultimately resulting in the separation of Chorus from Telecom's other operations and strict limitations upon the extent of...

Insider trading has a number of harmful effects that can result in financial market distortions reducing its efficient functioning. Much of this harm comes from the large profits insiders expropriate from small investors and the resulting loss of confidence in the market by the investing...

Decentralised electricity systems require effective price and quantity risk management mechanisms but the nature of such systems poses particular problems for satisfying those requirements. Among these problems are investment hold-up risks rooted in the competition facing both electricity...

Graeme Guthrie and Steen Videbeck presented, Is New Zealand One Market or Many? Implications for Locational Portfolios at an ISCR half day seminar in September 2003.

New Zealand was the first country in the OECD to adopt a 'light-handed' approach to telecommunications regulation when in 1987 it eschewed industry-specific regulation for a generic competition law-based approach. The 'light-handed' regulatory environment prevailed throughout the 1990s during...