Bronwyn Howell presented Paying for the Doctors Strike and the Waiting List Cull at the GP's Surgery at LEANZ in August 2006.

This presentation compares the issues of process and substance that formed the basis of each of the 2003 Telecommunications Commissioner's review of Local Loop Unbundling and the 2006 'Stocktake Report' of the industry overseen by the Ministry of Economic Development

The success of supply-side risk-sharing contracts in achieving behavioural change amongst health care providers is dependant upon the trade-off between reduced costs from reduction in 'predictable risks' (e.g. supplier-induced demand) and increased costs from the sharing of 'random risk'...

A subsequent version of this paper was published in the New Zealand Law Journal [2012] NZLJ 108, April 2012. Also, The National Business Review published Bronwyn's update article after Justice Forrie Miller's decision on 20 April. Link:...

Despite an apparent absence of supply side impediments to the uptake of broadband New Zealand has persistently exhibited one of the lowest numbers of connections per capita in the OECD. Whilst geographic demographic and economic factors may partially explain the disparity they fail to explain...

Economic analysis takes as its defining performance benchmark the pursuit of increases in welfare (efficiency). Competition is merely one of a variety of means of achieving the efficiency end especially in industries where the underlying economic circumstances predispose them towards greatest...

As public policies seek to advance deployment of enhanced broadband infrastructure as a means of acquiring economic advantage the issue has arisen of the extent that additional economic performance accrues from increases in headline bandwidth speed in locations that are physically remote from...

There are many geographic and demographic similarities between Finland and New Zealand but their telecommunications markets show marked differences. Finland has seen greater broadband penetration and a higher degree of voice traffic substitution from fixed to mobile connections while New Zealand...

This report suggests that the telecommunications market in New Zealand is surprisingly mature. We infer that the potential for growth is limited. There has been negligible growth in any of the number of fixed lines either business or residential since 2000. The number of residential lines is...

Bronwyn Howell recently attended the International Telecommunications Society conference in Perth. Attached are copies of her presentations to the conference including slides of her involvement in a Policy Roundtable.