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How do industry structures and other institutional arrangements affect growth and innovation in the New Zealand agricultural sector? Put another way how can those structures and arrangements be improved to better facilitate growth and innovation in the New Zealand agricultural sector? Addressing...
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Lew Evans and Neil Quigley presented, Regulation of Lines Networks at an ISCR half day seminar in March 2003.
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Generators supplying electricity markets are subject to volatile input and output prices and uncertain fuel availability. Price-risk may be hedged to a considerable extent but fuel-risk - water flows in the case of hydro and gas availability in the case of thermal plants - may not be. We show...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Co-operatives provide a vehicle for the vertical integration of production andprocessing in agriculture. The producers provide capital for and control theprocessing entity so that their interests are aligned. Returns to producers bundle together the commodity price and the return from the...
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This presentation looks at:Discussion of peculiarly grid regulation issues A quick stock take of the state of "onr market": particularly concerning the interisland link Competition and pricing the HVDC interconnection
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This paper considers the application of competition law and price regulation inthe very small and isolated economy that is New Zealand. It argues that the total surplus (efficiency) criterion should be applied in tests of practices and actions where the competition threshold is not met or...
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