Bronwyn Howell presented Submission: Telecommunications Amendment Bill to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee in September.

Richard Meade presented Climate changes stock-take and appraisal at The Journalists Training Organisation Courses hosted by Victoria University Continuing Education and Executive Development.

In 2002 New Zealand's government-funded primary health care payments were changed from a fee-for-service basis to a capitation basis as part of a change towards a population-based managed care style of primary health care provision. However some specific differences characterise the New Zealand...

We examine the propensity of Australian banks to participate in syndicated loans to corporate borrowers from 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. We find that these banks participate more often in greater numbers and in greater quantity for loans made to Australian and New Zealand borrowers....

For much of the twentieth century electricity generation and transmission in New Zealand was dominated by centralized state ownership and control with local authority ownership of distribution and retailing. Radical reform of the sector commenced in the early 1980s with the progressive...

This paper reports on a small-scale study of the compliance costs of small New Zealand businesses. Participating firms were asked to keep a record of both time spent and expenditure directly incurred over a thirteen-week period. This differs from previous studies that rely on a firm's recall of...

Interest in the governance of Maori collectives has grown considerably over the past decade as significant settlements have been made between the Crown and various tribes (iwi) under the Treaty of Waitangi and also as Maori collectives take an increasing role in providing social service delivery...

Professor Glenn Boyle presented One Size Fit All? Investor Protection Regulation in Financial Markets at this seminar in May 2005.

This paper studies residential, commuting and car ownership decisions in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand. We establish an estimation methodology that is robust to endogeneity between house prices and residential decisions. The paper also makes extensive use of Geographic Information...