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...

Would you willingly pay more for groceries from the local cooperative than identical brands sold by the local branch of the privately-owned chain? Conventional economic theory suggests that a rational Homo Economicus would never entertain such a proposition. However Morris Altman's survey-based...

Bronwyn Howell recently attended the International Telecommunications Society conference in Perth. Attached are copies of her presentations to the conference including slides of her involvement in a Policy Roundtable.

John Hancock, CGNZ, presented Twelve Months On: Blacking out through Reforming the Unreformable? contrasting international perspectives on the electricity blackouts experienced in London, Italy and New York and how electricity markets will work to ensure sufficient supply and reliable delivery...

Slides from the presentation by Professor Lewis Evans on Infrastructure Investment and Uncertainty, presented at the IIPS/Motu Workshop, victoria University on July 13, 2010.

Much attention in recent months has been focused upon both the existence and the extent of a "digital divide" between urban New Zealanders and their rural counterparts. A commonly held perception is that rural New Zealanders hobbled by the relative disadvantages of an inadequate...

Cooperatives and other forms of farmer controlled businesses (FCBs) are major players in a number of New Zealand's agricultural sectors and together account for a significant share of New Zealand's economic activity. The New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has commissioned the...

On July 1 2010 the Minister of Communications Steven Joyce announced fundamental changes to the structure and regulation of the New Zealand Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative. The changes were deemed necessary in order to achieve uptake targets sufficient to underpin the business case...

Lew Evans assesses the state of play in New Zealand regulation at The Institute of Directors (Wellington Branch) Breakfast address on 11 October 2007.

PowerPoint slides presented by Bronwyn Howell at The Journalists Training Organisation Courses hosted by Victoria University Continuing Education and Executive Development are available for download here.