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...

New Zealand has introduced legislation to implement the world's first 'all sectors all gases' emissions trading scheme (ETS) as a way of reducing the country's greenhouse gas emissions. The Scheme is to retrospectively introduce a price for carbon emissions in forestry from 1 January 2008 and...

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...

The paper takes the efficiency objective of the authorisation process under theCommerce Act 1986 as given. This objective makes competition law completely consistent with thrust of New Zealand public policy since the early 1980s. This has entailed the separation of efficiency and equity in...

New Zealand is about to implement the world's first "all sectors all gases" emissions trading scheme yet the country emits only 0.2% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and not all the impacts of climate change on New Zealand are predicted to be negative. On the other hand New...

Setting aside certain complications that can arise due to market power it is a relatively straightforward matter to derive (if not implement) a valuation formula for FTRs and to relate FTR valuation with the proceeds of the FTR auction allowing for both taxation and auction efficiency. If the...

Two-part tariffs are a common feature of utility pricing. In particular telecommunications firms apply the two-part tariff to pricing telephony for which there is a telephone network access price and a telephone call price. In this paper the influence of income on an optimal two-part tariff is...