This report describes the process and results of the evaluation of five State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). It incorporates a comparison of their performance with that of NZ Rail. The SOE study taken as a whole is useful in establishing the performance of NZ Rail following privatisation. It is also...

The aim of this paper is to consider the political forces behind these tradereforms with an eye towards explaining the political success of the unilateral approach. We seek to provide some answers to the following sorts of question. What were the vested interests behind New Zealand's starting...

This paper compares the Australian and New Zealand Internet market. It draws heavily on Enright (2000) which reports the short history of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in New Zealand since the inception of the Internet in 1994. It also provides a review of the prices and market shares and...

A key question facing regulators is how to create an economic environment that encourages appropriate investment and innovation. In this paper we analyse the importance of technological change for both competition and regulation with a particular focus on the regulation of telecommunications and...

Investigations into the causes and effects of parallel importing have concentrated on price discrimination but arbitrage can also occur on non-price dimensions. Using a natural experiment in the New Zealand film distribution industry between May 1998 and November 2001 we examine the effect of...

With the exception of the introduction of experience-rated premiums the incorporation of the term "insurance" in the title of the 1992 legislation and the short-lived reforms to the structure of workplace accident compensation in 1998 New Zealand's accident compensation scheme has continued to...

This paper outlines the key distinguishing features of light- and heavy-handed regulation. It Provides an analysis of the importance of informational issues for the conduct of commerce Provides an analysis of informational issues for the design and operation of incentive regulation Uses...

The ACC is currently funded on a pay-as-you-go (pay-go) basis. This means that levies on participants in the scheme cover only its current period operating costs. In the past these costs have been lower than the amount required to fully fund the cost of the new claims being added to the ACC each...

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.