The economic purpose of an Overseas Investment Act (OIA) should be to enable foreign investment that has a positive (or at least non-negative) impact on a country's economic performance and to prevent investments which will likely have detrimental net effects. An examination of both the content...

Bronym Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulations 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Telecommunications Regulatory Authority) in Helsinki Finland in May 2007

Mandatory structural separation of networks from retail operations is increasingly becoming a feature of telecommunications markets - as evidenced in the 2007 legislation ultimately resulting in the separation of Chorus from Telecom's other operations and strict limitations upon the extent of...

New Zealand was the first country in the OECD to adopt a 'light-handed' approach to telecommunications regulation when in 1987 it eschewed industry-specific regulation for a generic competition law-based approach. The 'light-handed' regulatory environment prevailed throughout the 1990s during...

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...