Our analysis is concerned solely with the levy of rates on the value of the distribution networks of utilities (which may be on poles above ground or underground) and is not applicable to the land and buildings owned by utilities and rated under the standard residential and commercial rating...

Margeret Beardow presented, The cost structure of electricity lines businesses and performance competitive pressures in March 2003 at an ISCR half day seminar.

Policy organizations such as the OECD and the EU have placed much emphasis on the role of local loop unbundling as a regulatory tool in stimulating the rollout and uptake of broadband technologies and consequently promoting the accrual of economic benefits from electronic commerce. However there...

Slides presented by Lew Evans at The Journalists Training Organisation Courses hosted by Victoria University Continuing Education and Executive Development are available for download here.

If New Zealand's EFTPOS networks receive stronger use than similar networks overseas because of differences in price structures what motivations lie behind the structures each has chosen? An analysis of the economic history of networks in New Zealand and a number of other developed countries...

The paper analyses more than ten thousand observations on prices charged for air travel on 1001 flights on eight New Zealand and twenty one trans-Tasman flights observed in 2004 and 2005. The main findings are (i) that routes on which Qantas competes with Air New Zealand tend to have air fares...

The Internet and associated networks and devices are intruding throughout social and commercial activity. They are improving information exchange storage and utilisation to an extent that is re-shaping the structure and institutions of society that have evolved over centuries inresponse to...

The Ultimatum game is simple and this facilitates its use in the study of predictions of game theory. Experimental evidence suggests that it doesnot predict individual behavior well unless individuals gain welfarefrom fairness in transactions or have expectations about some widergame. Our model...

In The State of e-New Zealand: 12 Months On we revisit the measures of New Zealand's preparedness to utilise and capitalise upon the economic and social benefits promised by the uses of electronic infrastructures addressed in our November 2000 paper The State of e-New Zealand. We acknowledge the...

In an imperfectly competitive industry for a homogeneous good like electricity - with forward wholesale and retail markets - should upstream firms (generators) be vertically integrated with or separated from downstream firms (retailers)? Left to their own devices will firms integrate or separate...