Meade, Richard(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
Given the market power of electricity generators should they be allowed to own electricity retailers - i.e. to vertically integrate - or should vertical separation from retailers be required? How does vertical integration ...
Cordery, Carolyn; Baskerville, Rachel; Sutton, David(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
This paper examines the success and failure of a once pre-eminent New Zealand charity - the Council of Organisations for Relief Service Overseas (CORSO). Delivering aid for government was a factor in its success in its ...
Evans, Lewis; lu, Yinjia (Andrea); Guthrie, Graeme(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
In this paper we introduce a model of an electricity market and use it to explore the effect of climate change on electricity prices and output. It has multiple generation fuels uncertain fuel availability and storage ...
Boyle, Glenn; Roberts, Helen(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
New Zealand firms exhibit significant variation in the extent to which they formally involve CEOs in the executive pay-setting process: a considerable number sit on the compensation committee while others are excluded from ...
Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
On July 1 2010 the Minister of Communications Steven Joyce announced fundamental changes to the structure and regulation of the New Zealand Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative. The changes were deemed necessary ...
Evans, Lewis(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
Slides from the presentation by Professor Lewis Evans on Infrastructure Investment and Uncertainty, presented at the IIPS/Motu Workshop, victoria University on July 13, 2010.
Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
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 ...
Heatley, David; Howell, Bronwyn(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
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 ...
Howell, Bronwyn(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
Flat-rate tariffs have become widespread in the sale of broadband services. Although popular amongst network operators consumers and policy-makers flat-rate tariffs have been implicated in retarding the rate of substitution ...
Patel, Nimesh; Daglish, Toby(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
Toby Daglish and Nimesh Patel discuss the rationale behind banks charging break-fees to recoup their losses as a result of customers prepaying loans. Next they chart the historical levels of these for New Zealand. Lastly ...
Hahn, Robert; Evans, Lewis(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
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 ...
Sidak, Gregory J.(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
Over the last decade in the United States network neutrality has evolved from a primarily technical concern to a national debate about the future of American communications regulation as well as technology and innovation ...
Daglish, Toby(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
We explore calibration of single factor no-arbitrage short rate models to yield and volatility information. We note that the calculation of Arrow-Debreu prices for interest rate securities is analogous to solving the ...
Grimes, Arthur; Howell, Bronwyn(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
Fast internet access is widely considered to be a productivity-enhancing factor. However despite promises of substantial gains from its deployment the evidence from recent empirical studies sugests that the productivity ...
Corbett, Susan(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
The regulation of orphan works has stalled in many countries. This is mainly due to the complexity of the issues surrounding these works and the corresponding difficulties of providing a comprehensive legislative solution. ...
Evans, Lewis(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
On January 27 the Justice Minister released a discussion document proposing to criminalise cartel activities such as price fixing and bid rigging. In this seminar Professor Evans will consider efficiency aspects of the ...