Economic analysis takes as its defining performance benchmark the pursuit of increases in efficiency. Competition law and industry-specific regulation provide two competing means of intervention whereby the pursuit of efficiency can be enhanced. Ultimately legislators decide how governance of...

Bronwyn Howell's presentation to the International Telecommunications Society European Regional Conference held in Budapest 20-22 September 2011.

This monograph contains the following articles: The birth of a strategyA managed-care model The NZPHCS managed-care schemeCompeting for governanceFor the future

The Australian and New Zealand governments have both decided that substantial government investment is required to accelerate the deployment of new nationwide fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. This paper examines the two proposals in light of the crucial role of price discrimination in enabling...

New Zealand's primary health care sector has undergone fundamental changes under the Primary Health Care Strategy announced in 2001 and implemented from 2002. The strategy replaces historic fee-for-service general practitioner subsidies with population-based capitation subsidies and restructures...

Current Comment is an occasional series providing economic commentary on topical issues. This first issue relates to penalties when the trains do not run to schedule.

Policy reforms to primary health care delivery in New Zealand required government-funded firms overseeing care delivery to be constituted as nonprofit entities with governance shared between consumer and producers. This paper examines the consumer and producer interests in the allocation of...

This paper examines issues of the digital divide in each country and discusses similarities and differences in the policies adopted to ameliorate it. The paper presented here is subtitled 'a perspective from New Zealand' because it documents my own conclusions resulting from my position as an...

Governments around the world are attempting to 'invest' in infrastructure for the perceived 'future needs' of their nations. Locally New Zealand and Australian governments have spent the past thirty years corporatising and privatising formerly government-owned incumbents and liberalising the...

Our study is based upon publicly available sources of information. Internationally published statistics have been used to supplement New Zealand data to assess New Zealand's relative position. While international studies have provided some basis for comparison the supplementary information...