Professor Tim Hazledine presented Flying High? Pricing and Competition in the NZ and Tasman Air Travel Market at an ISCR seminar on 1 June 2005.

This paper examines the importance of jumps in asset prices for investment problems potentially incorporating consumption decisions. We present a technique for solving investment-consumption problems when asset prices jump. We also demonstrate how to quantify utility losses using an "optimal...

Lew Evans presented this seminar on 3 September to ISCR Members and a delegation of 30 Presidents and Directors of cooperatives of the Brazilian State of Parana drawn mainly from the agricultural and credit sectors including: Coamo - the largest agricultural cooperative of South America. With 41...

Lewis Evans presented Using Regulation to Resolve Investment and Pricing Issues in Transmission in Wellington in April 2006.

Whatever the statutory differences or language differences in Guidelines between Canada and the US the application of competition rules and procedures is remarkably similar in the two countries. Recent adjustments to the role of efficiencies in merger analysis in the two countries reveal a...

Presentation made by Toby Daglish to Otago University on 4 November 2011. Based on a working paper (forthcoming) by Toby Daglish NZ Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation and Lyndon Moore University of Melbourne.

When New Zealand's railway system was privatised in 1993 it was as one entity thus avoiding any issues arising from the 'separation of wheel and rail'. Yet this approach failed in time in that in 2003 the New Zealand Government had to come in and purchase the track in order to bail out the...

Gabriel Fiuza de Braganca slide presentation to the WEAI 85th Annual Conference held 1 July 2010 in Portland Oregon USA.

Many countries are developing next generation broadband infrastructure. Australia's National Broadband Network is unique because of its scale expense and the extent of government involvement. The Australian model is unlikely to be fully repeated elsewhere but aspects of the model if fully...

The exertion of market power in electricy wholesale markets is an issue of great academic and practical debate. In particular the role of a given amount of hedge on market power has been of considerable interest. However the relationship between risk management spot market power and hedge...