While the Cartwright Duffy and Cull inquiries investigated in some detail the health system processes that led to the specific instances of malpractice that prejudiced the health states of the main 'whistleblowers' a key element of these processes - the design incentives and monitoring of the...

The current mobile ecosystem is best understood in terms of a monopolistic competition model characterised by heterogeneous producers providing a range of differentiated products for consumers with heterogeneous preferences. Product differentiation offers producers some market power ultimately...

Bronwyn Howell General Manager ISCR presented Diverse Dimensions of the 'Digital Divide': Perspectives from New Zealand at the session "Digital Divde in Asia-Pacific" at the Keio University Global COE Programme Conference on Designing Governance for Civil Society Tokyo on 5 February 2012.Click...

Rhema Vaithianathan's article The Failure of Corporatisation: Public Hospitals in New Zealand (Agenda 6(4) 1999 325-338) argues that corporatisation of New Zealand's public hospitals failed to yield the expected efficiency results due to the failure to recognise that the change in formal...

Bronwyn Howell presented Injecting Change into Primary Health Care: The NZ Experience Part 1 Patient Subsidies from: Co-payments to Insurance Premiums in an ISCR two part Primary Health Care seminars: Patient Subsidies: from Co-Payments to Insurance Premiums and Competting for Governance in July...

This paper uses the literature on the likely outcomes of the use of capitation contracts in primary health care to critique the arrangements in the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy (NZPHCS) introduced in 2002. The New Zealand arrangements provide significant challenges to achieving the...

This paper examines the factors that affect the uptake of broadband in the residential and SME markets. We searched the economics literature on diffusion theory and identified five different models that potentially provide insights into the broadband phenomenon. These models were applied to the...

Using an efficiency-based framework this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to 2007). The framework considers the productive allocative...

Local loop unbundling has been widely promulgated by policy-makers as a significant factor stimulating broadband uptake and therefore an essential component of a developing 'information economy'. Whilst empirical evidence is sparse and at best equivocal in respect of a consistent positive and...

Bronwyn Howell recently attended the International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific conference held in Taipei Taiwan on 26-28 June 2011. A copy of her presentation is attached.