Data constraints mean that relatively little is known about the relationship between pay levels and worker quality but the recently introduced Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) system makes the NZ tertiary sector a natural setting for examining this issue. In NZ universities academics...

Does the quality of performance by experts respond to financial incentives? Or as some psychologists argue are experts primarily motivated by more intrinsic consideration such as professional pride? I provide some evidence on this question by examining the relationship between horse race...

Australia and New Zealand provide a unique set of comparators with which to examine similarities and differences in approaches to the regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI). By examining experience with regulation of FDI in these two states we show how they act in the governance space to...

This review discusses developments arising from three recent decisions in the field of competition law.The first is the High Court of Australia's decision in NT Power Generation Pty Ltd v Power & Water Authority [2004] HCA 48 ("NT Power"). That decision relates to the application of...

Comments to the Federal communications Commission Washington DC on Broadband Study conducted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. NPB Public Notice #13; GN Docket Numbers 09-47; 09-51; 09-137.Prepared by Bronwyn Howell November 13 2009.

Kevin Counsel and Professor Lewis Evans presented Struggling Upstream: Efficient Water Allocation on the Waitaki River and Elsewhere in Wellington and Auckland in July 2004.

There is concern in many jurisdictions that firms found to enjoysubstantial market power may be under a special responsibility to grant to their competitors access to essential facilities. Where a firm enjoying market power has some asset which a new entrant to a concentrated market must have or...

Arab and Chinese Sovereign Wealth Funds are recapitalizing international banks crippled by the subprime crisis. This reflects long-term changes in the international economy that are leading globalization to self-destruct. This seminar highlights the cultural and historical drivers and their...

Over the last decade in the United States network neutrality has evolved from a primarily technical concern to a national debate about the future of American communications regulation as well as technology and innovation policy in general. In October 2009 the U.S. Federal Communications...

Should the Wellington City Council be in the business of paying David Beckham to play soccer? What was the government thinking when it offered New Line Cinema a tax break worth $300-400 million to shoot the Lords of the Rings trilogy in New Zealand? Johannes Van Biesebroeck looks at the stakes...