This supplement published in March of 2004 discusses:Aspects of a water allocation framework Valuing water in a water market Water allocation under the Waitaki billHow the Waitaki bill fits a desirable framework

Graeme Guthrie presented Incentive Regulation: Asset Valuation and Investment in Advance at the Contemporary Issues in Regulatory Theory and Practice half day workshop held in Wellington in March 2005.

Vertical separation of generation from electricity retailing has often been required as a condition of electricity market liberalisation. A well-developed and liquid contracts market is similarly suggested as necessary to manage the resulting wholesale market risks which risks are further...

This seminar examines the effects that the private selection of arbitrators has over arbitrators' incentives in deciding the cases before them and over the arbitrators' implied bias. These effects have important implications for the design of Arbitration rules by Arbitration and Dispute...

The 23rd PhD Conference was held between 17-19 November 2010 and involved 31 students from 17 different universities in Australia and New Zealand. 36 discussants from 21 universities and government institutions throughout Australia contributed to the success of the conference. The PhD students...

Rhema Vaithianathan's article The Failure of Corporatisation: Public Hospitals in New Zealand (Agenda 6(4) 1999 325-338) argues that corporatisation of New Zealand's public hospitals failed to yield the expected efficiency results due to the failure to recognise that the change in formal...

The major difficulties in assessing market power in electricity wholesale spot markets mean that great weight should be placed upon assessing market outcomes against the fundamental determinants of supply demand and competition. In this spirit we study whether the New Zealand market has been a...

Our consulting experiences indicate that many New Zealand businesses and their managers are increasingly aware of the shortcomings of conventional methods for evaluating capital investment projects particularly in situations where there is considerable flexibility subsequent to the project's...

In this paper we take three steps towards evaluating the relative performanceof the telecommunications markets in these five countries. First weidentify and then limit our examination to only those components of thetelecommunications network that may generate market power concerns. Wedetermine...

Bronwyn Howell presented Injecting Change into Primary Health Care: The NZ Experience Part 1 Patient Subsidies from: Co-payments to Insurance Premiums in an ISCR two part Primary Health Care seminars: Patient Subsidies: from Co-Payments to Insurance Premiums and Competting for Governance in July...